--- title: Deciding how many games or how long before you start is much easier… — Just one more game · tree and pragmatics description: Deciding how many games or how long before you start is much easier than deciding while you play, when the fun pulls you to go on. Who acts: you, Deciding, fun. A sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/23/) [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/) / [Just one more game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/) / 23 # Just one more game, sentence 23 Deciding how many games or how long before you start is much easier than deciding while you play, when the fun pulls you to go on. **Who acts:** you, Deciding, fun · **What happens:** decide, start, be, play, pull, go on · **To what, where:** many games, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» 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 (you, Deciding, fun), 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:23 # text = Deciding how many games or how long before you start is much easier than deciding while you play, when the fun pulls you to go on. # 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 ×1 1 Deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 14 than than SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 27 on on ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | gerund | | many games | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic | | 2 | **start** | present | you | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | Deciding | | | | | easy, long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **decide** | gerund | Deciding *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | present | you | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pull** | present | the fun | you | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result | | 7 | **go on** | to-infinitive | the fun *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:23`. **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/). - ← previous: [Just one more game, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/20/) - next →: [Just one more game, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/417-just-one-more-game/)