--- title: The worst part was not losing the tablet for a week; it was that the… — Screen-time rules and arguments · tree and pragmatics description: The worst part was not losing the tablet for a week; it was that they stopped believing his «I'm not playing». Who acts: worst part, part, Ollie. 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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 (worst part, part, Ollie), 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:9 # text = The worst part was not losing the tablet for a week; it was that they stopped believing his «I'm not playing». # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lose** | past · progressive | the worst part | the tablet | | | week | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | part | | | | | stop *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **believe** | gerund | part *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ollie | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:9`. **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 ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/8/) - next →: [Screen-time rules and arguments, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/)