Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 16
When others are watching TV or a film, you wait for a break or talk quietly.
Who acts: others, you · What happens: watch, wait, talk · To what, where: TV
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 (others, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 watching | mark |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watching | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watching | aux |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wait | advcl |
| 5 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 film | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 film | det |
| 8 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 TV | conj |
| 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 break | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 break | det |
| 14 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 talk | cc |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | conj |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 talk | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | watch | present · progressive | others | TV or a film | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | you | for a break | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk | present | you not said here | quietly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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.
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