Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 15

Zara wrote a list of reasons for more screen time: «I finish homework first, I play with my cousin in Australia, I have not been rude once this month.» Her parents gave her thirty extra minutes at weekends, because the list was calm and true.

Who acts: Zara, Ollie, parents, list · What happens: write, finish, play, not be, give, be · To what, where: list, homework, Australia, Zara, reasons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 (Zara, Ollie, parents, list), 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	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 reasons	case
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 list	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 time	amod
9	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reasons	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 finish	nsubj
14	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	ccomp
15	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finish	obj
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 finish	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 play	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 play	nsubj
19	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 finish	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 cousin	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cousin	nmod:poss
22	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 play	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Australia	case
24	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 play	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rude	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 rude	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 rude	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 rude	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 rude	cop
30	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 finish	conj
31	once	once	ADV	_	30 rude	advmod
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 month	det
33	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rude	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct
36	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 parents	nmod:poss
37	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gave	nsubj
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	parataxis
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gave	iobj
40	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 minutes	nummod
41	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 minutes	amod
42	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gave	obj
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 weekends	case
44	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gave	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 calm	punct
46	because	because	SCONJ	_	50 calm	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 list	det
48	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 calm	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 calm	cop
50	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gave	advcl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 true	cc
52	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 calm	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Zara	a list of reasons for more screen time					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent list=Recipient clause=Topic
2	finish in a quote	present	Ollie	homework				first property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality
3	play in a quote	present	Ollie			Australia		with my cousin	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cousin=Theme
4	not is in a quote	present · perfect	Ollie				month	once, rude property	tree rules
5	give	past	Zara's parents		Zara		minute; weekend		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	is	past	the list					calm property	tree rules
7	be		the list not said here						tree rules
8	list			reasons for more screen time					nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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