--- title: Doing the hard job first, "eating the frog", leaves the fun part fre… — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics description: Doing the hard job first, "eating the frog", leaves the fun part free of worry. Who acts: Doing. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/5/) [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/) / [Screen time, wasted time, and putting…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together/) / 5 # Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 5 Doing the hard job first, "eating the frog", leaves the fun part free of worry. **Who acts:** Doing · **What happens:** do, eat, leave · **To what, where:** hard job, frog, fun part 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 (Doing), 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:5 # text = Doing the hard job first, "eating the frog", leaves the fun part free of worry. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | gerund | | the hard job | | | | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | | the frog | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present | Doing | the fun part | | | | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | 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:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:5`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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