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title: A big task is easier when it is broken into smaller parts done over… — Time, routines and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: A big task is easier when it is broken into smaller parts done over several days. Who acts: big task. A sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Time, routines and sleep, sentence 21

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A big task is easier when it is broken into smaller parts done over several days.

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**Who acts:** big task · **What happens:** be, break, do over · **To what, where:** task, smaller parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time, routines and sleep» 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 (big task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:21
# text = A big task is easier when it is broken into smaller parts done over several days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 039-time-and-routines.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | a big task |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive |  | task |  |  |  | into smaller parts *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into part=Result |
| 3 | **do over** | participle |  | smaller parts *not said here* |  |  | day | over *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:039-time-and-routines.lesson:21`.

**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/).

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