Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 5
You join the end of a queue and wait your turn, because the people at the front waited longest.
Who acts: You, people · What happens: join, wait · To what, where: end, turn
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 join | nsubj |
| 2 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 join | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 queue | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 queue | det |
| 7 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wait | cc |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 join | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 turn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waited | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 waited | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 waited | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 front | det |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | advcl |
| 20 | longest | long | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 waited | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 join | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | You | the end of a queue | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wait | present | You not said here | your turn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the people at the front | long property | 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: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): 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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