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title: Better to add up your morning jobs and pick one alarm that leaves ti… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics
description: Better to add up your morning jobs and pick one alarm that leaves time to spare. Who acts: Better, one alarm, your. 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 7

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Better to add up your morning jobs and pick one alarm that leaves time to spare.

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**Who acts:** Better, one alarm, your · **What happens:** add up, pick, leave, spare, job · **To what, where:** morning jobs, one alarm

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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 (Better, one alarm, your), 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:7
# text = Better to add up your morning jobs and pick one alarm that leaves time to spare.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **add up** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Better | your morning jobs |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 2 | **pick** | infinitive | Better *not said here* | one alarm |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present | one alarm |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spare** | to-infinitive | one alarm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **job** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

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