Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 3

When you need to speak while someone is talking, you wait for a pause, or say "Excuse me" first; you also let people finish their own sentences.

Who acts: you, someone, people · What happens: need, speak, talk, wait, say, excuse · To what, where: me, people, own sentences · 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, someone, people), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 need	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 talking	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 talking	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	aux
9	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 speak	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 wait	nsubj
12	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talking	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 pause	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pause	det
15	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wait	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Excuse	punct
20	Excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Excuse	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Excuse	punct
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 Excuse	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
26	also	also	ADV	_	27 let	advmod
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	parataxis
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 let	obj
29	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sentences	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sentences	amod
32	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 finish	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	present · progressive	someone			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	present	you		for a pause	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	excuse in a quote	infinitive		me	first property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	let	present	you	people		tree rules
8	finish	infinitive	people not said here	people's own sentences		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality
9	sentence		people			nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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