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title: "Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first. — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first. A sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 15

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"Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first.

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**What happens:** eat, mean, do · **To what, where:** frog, hardest job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:15
# text = "Eat the frog" means do the hardest job first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the frog |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive |  | the hardest job |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:15`.

**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): 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/).

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