Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 6

A plan works better than «now»: «Can we play after your last call?»

Who acts: plan, we, your · What happens: work, play, call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (plan, we, your), 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 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 works	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 now	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 now	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 works	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 now	punct
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 play	punct
11	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 play	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 play	nsubj
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 works	parataxis
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 call	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 call	nmod:poss
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 call	amod
17	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a plan		well property	tree rules
2	play in a quote	can	we	after your last call		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call in a quote		your			nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:6.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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