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title: "Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't;… — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't; resting, chilling and playing aren't waste if you chose them. Who acts: Wasting, you. 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
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 2

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"Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't; resting, chilling and playing aren't waste if you chose them.

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**Who acts:** Wasting, you · **What happens:** waste, mean, spend, wish, not have, rest · **To what, where:** habit, way, waste, games · **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: who acts (Wasting, you), 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:2
# text = "Wasting time" means spending it in a way you later wish you hadn't; resting, chilling and playing aren't waste if you chose them.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
2	Wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	chose	chose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **waste** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Wasting |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **spend** | gerund |  | habit |  | a way |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 4 | **wish** | present | you | a way *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **not** **is a** | present |  | waste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **chose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | games *= game* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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