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title: Because online games cannot be paused, it is wise to start them only… — Just one more game · tree and pragmatics
description: Because online games cannot be paused, it is wise to start them only when there is enough time to finish. Who acts: enough time. 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 of every clause.
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# Just one more game, sentence 25

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Because online games cannot be paused, it is wise to start them only when there is enough time to finish.

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**Who acts:** enough time · **What happens:** not pause, be, start, finish · **To what, where:** online games, tricks

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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 (enough time), 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:25
# text = Because online games cannot be paused, it is wise to start them only when there is enough time to finish.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	paused	pause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pause** | can · passive |  | online games |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | to-infinitive |  | tricks *= trick* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **be** | present | enough time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **finish** | to-infinitive | enough time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:25`.

**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 ×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/).

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