--- title: Priya put a kitchen timer shaped like a chicken next to her console;… — Just one more game · tree and pragmatics description: Priya put a kitchen timer shaped like a chicken next to her console; when it squawked, she stopped, because it is easier to obey a beep than to argue with yourself. Who acts: Priya, timer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Priya, timer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:18 # text = Priya put a kitchen timer shaped like a chicken next to her console; when it squawked, she stopped, because it is easier to obey a beep than to argue with yourself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 417-just-one-more-game.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 ×2 1 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 timer timer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 next next ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 squawked squawk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 beep beep NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 argue argue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Priya | a kitchen timer | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent timer=Goal | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | a kitchen timer *not said here* | | | | like a chicken to Priya's console | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **squawk** | past | timer | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stop** | past | Priya | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | Priya *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **obey** | to-infinitive | Priya *not said here* | a beep | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beep=Theme | | 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | Priya *not said here* | | | | | with yourself | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with yourself=Co-Agent | 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:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:18`. **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 ×2. **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: [Just one more game, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/17/) - next →: [Just one more game, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/)