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title: Snoozing gives a few more minutes, but the sleep is broken and many… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics
description: Snoozing gives a few more minutes, but the sleep is broken and many people feel more tired. Who acts: many people. A sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is, sentence 6

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Snoozing gives a few more minutes, but the sleep is broken and many people feel more tired.

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**Who acts:** many people · **What happens:** snooze, give, break, feel · **To what, where:** sleep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is» of the world 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 (many people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:6
# text = Snoozing gives a few more minutes, but the sleep is broken and many people feel more tired.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.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	Snoozing	snooze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snooze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | present · passive |  | the sleep |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | present | many people |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:6`.

**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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