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title: Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics
description: Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging. Who acts: people, nothing. 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.
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# Homework first?, sentence 19

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Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging.

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**Who acts:** people, nothing · **What happens:** do, play, work, be, leave, hang · **To what, where:** homework, nothing

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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 (people, nothing), 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:19
# text = Doing homework first and playing after usually works better, because people are less tired and nothing is left hanging.
# 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): no change
1	Doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	nsubj	_	_
2	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund |  | homework |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually, well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | less, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | present · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hang** | gerund | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:419-homework-first.lesson:19`.

**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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