--- title: Kai did his spelling homework in four minutes and fifty seconds, a p… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: Kai did his spelling homework in four minutes and fifty seconds, a personal record. Who acts: Kai. A sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/0/) [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/) / [Homework first?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/) / 0 # Homework first?, sentence 0 Kai did his spelling homework in four minutes and fifty seconds, a personal record. **Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** spelling homework This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (Kai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:0 # text = Kai did his spelling homework in four minutes and fifty seconds, a personal record. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 419-homework-first.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 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 16 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Kai | Kai's spelling homework | | | minute | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | 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:419-homework-first.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sleep and school mornings, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/418-sleep-and-school-mornings/30/) - next →: [Homework first?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)