Homework first?, sentence 7

He finished faster, because the reward was waiting, and enjoyed the game more, because nothing was nagging at the back of his head.

Who acts: Leo, reward, nothing · What happens: finish, wait, enjoy, nag · To what, where: game, back

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 (Leo, reward, nothing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 finished	nsubj
2	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 finished	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 waiting	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reward	det
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waiting	aux
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 finished	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enjoyed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 enjoyed	cc
12	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 finished	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enjoyed	obj
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 enjoyed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nagging	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 nagging	mark
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 nagging	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 nagging	aux
20	nagging	nag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 enjoyed	advcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 back	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nagging	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finished	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past	Leo			fast property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wait	past · progressive	the reward				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	enjoy	past	Leo not said here	the game			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus
4	nag	past · progressive	nothing		the back of Leo's head		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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): R5-strong ×1. 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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