Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 2
"Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't; resting, chilling and playing aren't waste if you chose them.
Who acts: Wasting, you · What happens: waste, mean, spend, wish, not have, rest · To what, where: habit, way, waste, games · 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: who acts (Wasting, you), 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 Wasting | punct |
| 2 | Wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wasting | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wasting | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | spending | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spending | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spending | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | ccomp |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 had | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 resting | punct |
| 18 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 waste | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chilling | punct |
| 20 | chilling | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 resting | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 playing | cc |
| 22 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 resting | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 waste | cop |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 waste | advmod |
| 25 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 chose | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 chose | nsubj |
| 28 | chose | chose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 waste | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chose | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste in a quote | gerund | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Wasting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spend | gerund | habit | a way | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 4 | wish | present | you | a way not said here | late property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not have | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | rest | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | chill | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | play | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | not is a | present | waste | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | chose a condition, not said to happen | past | you | games = game | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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