Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 15
"Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first.
What happens: eat, mean, do · To what, where: frog, hardest job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 2 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 frog | det |
| 4 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Eat | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eat | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 job | det |
| 9 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 job | amod |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 do | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | infinitive | the frog | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | the hardest job | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
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:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.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): R8-pos-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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