--- title: Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a dea… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a deadline is when the work must be handed in. Who acts: Putting. A sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/18/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Being on time around the world, waitin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/) / 18 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 18 Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a deadline is when the work must be handed in. **Who acts:** Putting · **What happens:** put off, call, be · **To what, where:** work, procrastination, deadline · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (Putting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:18 # text = Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a deadline is when the work must be handed in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 129-being-on-time-around-the-world.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): no change 1 Putting put VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj:pass _ _ 2 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 procrastination procrastination NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 deadline deadline NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put off** | gerund | | work | | | minute | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent work=Goal | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Putting | procrastination | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **is** | must · present · passive | | a deadline | | | | hand *property* | tree rules | 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:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:18`. **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): no change. **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: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/17/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)