--- title: Reading the instructions first usually saves time, because mistakes… — Homework, practice and the team counting on you · tree and pragmatics description: Reading the instructions first usually saves time, because mistakes made early can mean starting again. Who acts: Reading, mistakes. A sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/20/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Homework, practice and the team counti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/) / 20 # Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 20 Reading the instructions first usually saves time, because mistakes made early can mean starting again. **Who acts:** Reading, mistakes · **What happens:** read, save, make, mean, start · **To what, where:** instructions, mistakes This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» of the everyday 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 (Reading, mistakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:20 # text = Reading the instructions first usually saves time, because mistakes made early can mean starting again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.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 Reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 mistakes mistake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 15 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | gerund | | the instructions | | | | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic | | 2 | **save** | present | Reading | | | | time | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | participle | | mistakes *not said here* | | | | early *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **mean** | can | mistakes | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **start** *not said to happen* | gerund | mistakes *not said here* | | | | again | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:20`. **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. 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