--- title: Zara wrote a list of reasons for more screen time: «I finish homewor… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics description: Zara wrote a list of reasons for more screen time: «I finish homework first, I play with my cousin in Australia, I have not been rude once this month.» Her parents gave her thirty extra minutes at weekends, because the list was calm and true. Who acts: Zara, Ollie, parents, list. 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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 (Zara, Ollie, parents, list), 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:15 # text = Zara wrote a list of reasons for more screen time: «I finish homework first, I play with my cousin in Australia, I have not been rude once this month.» Her parents gave her thirty extra minutes at weekends, because the list was calm and true. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 9 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 15 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 30 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 31 once once ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 36 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 41 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 weekends weekend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 because because SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 advcl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 conj _ _ 53 . . 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 | **write** | past | Zara | a list of reasons for more screen time | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent list=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | present | Ollie | homework | | | | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality | | 3 | **play** *in a quote* | present | Ollie | | | Australia | | with my cousin | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cousin=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Ollie | | | | month | once, rude *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | past | Zara's parents | | Zara | | minute; weekend | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the list | | | | | calm *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | the list *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **list** | | | reasons for more screen time | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:15`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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: [Screen-time rules and arguments, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/14/) - next →: [Screen-time rules and arguments, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/)