--- title: "I went home because I was tired" is one sentence; "Because I was ti… — Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that… · tree and pragmatics description: "I went home because I was tired" is one sentence; "Because I was tired." on its own leaves you waiting, because a because-part needs a main part to lean on. Who acts: I, part. A sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Prepositions and conjunctions: little…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/) / 2 # Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 2 "I went home because I was tired" is one sentence; "Because I was tired." on its own leaves you waiting, because a because-part needs a main part to lean on. **Who acts:** I, part · **What happens:** go, be, wait, need, lean on · **To what, where:** one sentence, own leaves, main part · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language 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 (I, part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:2 # text = "I went home because I was tired" is one sentence; "Because I was tired." on its own leaves you waiting, because a because-part needs a main part to lean on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 Because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 21 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod:poss 23 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 26 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 32 case _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 lean lean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 on on ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | | one sentence | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | own leaves | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location | | 6 | **need** | present | a part | a main part | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme | | 7 | **lean on** | to-infinitive | a part *not said here* | a main part *not said here* | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Prepositions and conjunctions: little…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/1/) - next →: [Prepositions and conjunctions: little…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/6-prepositions-and-conjunctions/)