Saving up for a game, sentence 12
Waiting for something better later is called delayed gratification.
What happens: wait, call · To what, where: delayed gratification · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving up for a game» of the money 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: 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 called | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 something | case |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Waiting | obl |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Waiting | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | delayed | delayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gratification | amod |
| 9 | gratification | gratification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | 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 | for something; late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | delayed gratification | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:money:008-saving-up-for-a-game.lesson:12.
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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