--- title: Deadlines go better little and often: 20 minutes a day for 2 weeks i… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: Deadlines go better little and often: 20 minutes a day for 2 weeks is 280 minutes, over 4 and a half hours, with no panic, while starting a 3-hour job at 8 pm on Sunday ends at 11 pm, 2 hours past bedtime. Who acts: Deadlines, 20 minutes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deadlines, 20 minutes), 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:8 # text = Deadlines go better little and often: 20 minutes a day for 2 weeks is 280 minutes, over 4 and a half hours, with no panic, while starting a 3-hour job at 8 pm on Sunday ends at 11 pm, 2 hours past bedtime. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Deadlines deadline NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl:unmarked 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 280 280 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 appos _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 35 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 39 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 42 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 pm p.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 47 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 48 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod:unmarked _ _ 49 past past ADP IN _ 50 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 50 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **go** | present | Deadlines | | | | | good *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | 20 minutes a day for 2 weeks | 280 minutes | | | | with no panic | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | gerund | | a hour job | | 8 pm | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 4 | **end** | present | Deadlines *not said here* | | | 11 pm | sunday | past bedtime 2 hours | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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: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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/7/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)