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title: After a week of grumpy mornings, a falling-asleep-in-maths moment an… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics
description: After a week of grumpy mornings, a falling-asleep-in-maths moment and a dead battery that gave him away, his parents found out. Who acts: dead battery, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 8

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After a week of grumpy mornings, a falling-asleep-in-maths moment and a dead battery that gave him away, his parents found out.

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**Who acts:** dead battery, parents · **What happens:** give away, find out · **To what, where:** Ollie

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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 (dead battery, parents), 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:8
# text = After a week of grumpy mornings, a falling-asleep-in-maths moment and a dead battery that gave him away, his parents found out.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
9	falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:iobj
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give away** | past | a dead battery | Ollie |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **find out** | past | Ollie's parents |  |  |  | week |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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