Homework first?, sentence 20
A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster.
Who acts: game, you · What happens: wait, help, finish · To what, where: you, work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 game | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 reward | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reward | det |
| 6 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finish | obj |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 finish | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | a game not said here | as a reward | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | can | a game | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish | infinitive | you not said here | work | fast property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:20.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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