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title: Learning to fill your own free time is a skill; a list of things you… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics
description: Learning to fill your own free time is a skill; a list of things you like doing helps. Who acts: Learning, you, list. A sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 8

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Learning to fill your own free time is a skill; a list of things you like doing helps.

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**Who acts:** Learning, you, list · **What happens:** learn, fill, be, like, do, help · **To what, where:** skill, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 (Learning, you, list), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:8
# text = Learning to fill your own free time is a skill; a list of things you like doing helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Learning | a skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** | present | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **help** | present | a list of things |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **list** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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): R7-rel-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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