--- title: He finished faster, because the reward was waiting, and enjoyed the… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: He finished faster, because the reward was waiting, and enjoyed the game more, because nothing was nagging at the back of his head. Who acts: Leo, reward, nothing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leo, reward, 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:7 # text = He finished faster, because the reward was waiting, and enjoyed the game more, because nothing was nagging at the back of his head. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 15 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 nagging nag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past | Leo | | | | | fast *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | the reward | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | Leo *not said here* | the game | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus | | 4 | **nag** | past · progressive | nothing | | | the back of Leo's head | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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: [Homework first?, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/6/) - next →: [Homework first?, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)