Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 13
To speak while a parent talks to someone, you wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait.
Who acts: you, parent · What happens: speak, talk, wait, put · To what, where: hand, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday 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 (you, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 speak | mark |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | advcl |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 talks | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talks | nsubj |
| 6 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 speak | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 talks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 pause | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pause | det |
| 14 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wait | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 arm | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arm | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wait | cc |
| 24 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 put | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk | present | a parent | to someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | present | you | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | you not said here | your hand | turns's arm | gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination | ||
| 5 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:13.
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. 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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