--- title: Five minutes a day with three to five words, as a game, works better… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: Five minutes a day with three to five words, as a game, works better than an hour of flashcards ending in tears. Who acts: flashcards. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Tricky words and common exception words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/) / 13 # Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 13 Five minutes a day with three to five words, as a game, works better than an hour of flashcards ending in tears. **Who acts:** flashcards · **What happens:** work, end · **To what, where:** tears This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english 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 (flashcards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:13 # text = Five minutes a day with three to five words, as a game, works better than an hour of flashcards ending in tears. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 flashcards flashcard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 acl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | | | | | hour; minute | as a game; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as game=Attribute | | 2 | **end** | gerund | flashcards *not said here* | | | tears | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tricky words and common exception words, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/12/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)