--- title: A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster. — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster. Who acts: game, you. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Homework first?, sentence 20 A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster. **Who acts:** game, you · **What happens:** wait, help, finish · **To what, where:** you, work 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 (game, you), 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:20 # text = A game waiting as a reward can help you finish work faster. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | gerund | a game *not said here* | | | | | as a reward | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **help** | can | a game | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **finish** | infinitive | you *not said here* | work | | | | fast *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Homework first?, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/19/) - next →: [Homework first?, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)