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title: Small jobs done every day, like making your bed, are easier than a b… — Homework, practice and the team counting on you · tree and pragmatics
description: Small jobs done every day, like making your bed, are easier than a big mess cleaned once a week. Who acts: Small jobs. 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 of every claus
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# Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 22

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Small jobs done every day, like making your bed, are easier than a big mess cleaned once a week.

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**Who acts:** Small jobs · **What happens:** do, make, be, clean · **To what, where:** Small jobs, bed

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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 (Small jobs), 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:22
# text = Small jobs done every day, like making your bed, are easier than a big mess cleaned once a week.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
18	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | Small jobs *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | your bed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | Small jobs |  |  |  |  | a big mess *obl*; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **clean** | past | Small jobs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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