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title: «Five more minutes!» «You said that twenty minutes ago.» «That was a… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: «Five more minutes!» «You said that twenty minutes ago.» «That was a different five minutes!» Kai's dad finally sat him down on a Sunday, when nobody was in the middle of a game, and they wrote the rules together: one hour on school days, more at weekends, and a ten-minute warning before the end. Wh
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# Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 1

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«Five more minutes!» «You said that twenty minutes ago.» «That was a different five minutes!» Kai's dad finally sat him down on a Sunday, when nobody was in the middle of a game, and they wrote the rules together: one hour on school days, more at weekends, and a ten-minute warning before the end.

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**Who acts:** You, That, dad, nobody, they · **What happens:** say, be, sit down, write · **To what, where:** different five minutes, Kai, middle, rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 (You, That, dad, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:1
# text = «Five more minutes!» «You said that twenty minutes ago.» «That was a different five minutes!» Kai's dad finally sat him down on a Sunday, when nobody was in the middle of a game, and they wrote the rules together: one hour on school days, more at weekends, and a ten-minute warning before the end.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
17	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
51	together	together	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
52	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	parataxis	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=61:punct
59	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	54	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=61:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
60	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	conj	_	_
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
65	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	67	nummod	_	_
66	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	65	punct	_	_
67	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
69	before	before	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod	_	_
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | You |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | That | a different five minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | Kai's dad | Kai |  |  | sunday | finally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | nobody |  |  | the middle |  | of a game | tree rules |
| 5 | **write** | past | they | the rules |  |  |  | together *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |

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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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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