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title: In a timed task, the plan must be short: a few minutes and a few wor… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: In a timed task, the plan must be short: a few minutes and a few words per part, and a few minutes at the end are saved for checking. Who acts: plan. A sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Planning before writing, sentence 11

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In a timed task, the plan must be short: a few minutes and a few words per part, and a few minutes at the end are saved for checking.

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**Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** time, be, save, check · **To what, where:** timed task, few minutes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» 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 (plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:11
# text = In a timed task, the plan must be short: a few minutes and a few words per part, and a few minutes at the end are saved for checking.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	timed	time	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	per	per	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **time** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | must | the plan |  |  | a timed task |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | present · passive |  | a few minutes at the end |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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