Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 9

The worst part was not losing the tablet for a week; it was that they stopped believing his «I'm not playing».

Who acts: worst part, part, Ollie · What happens: not lose, be, believe, not play · To what, where: tablet · 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 (worst part, part, Ollie), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 losing	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 losing	advmod
6	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tablet	det
8	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 losing	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stopped	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stopped	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stopped	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 stopped	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 losing	conj
18	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stopped	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 playing	nmod:poss
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 playing	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 playing	nsubj
22	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 playing	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 playing	advmod
24	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 believing	ccomp
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 playing	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 losing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	past · progressive	the worst part	the tablet	week		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Eventuality
2	is	past	part			stop property	tree rules
3	believe	gerund	part not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not play in a quote	present · progressive	Ollie				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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