Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 8

He waits for a pause, or rests his hand gently on her arm so she knows he is waiting.

Who acts: boy, card · What happens: wait, rest, know · To what, where: hand, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 (boy, card), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 pause	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pause	det
5	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waits	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rests	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 rests	cc
8	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 waits	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rests	obj
11	gently	gently	ADV	_	8 rests	advmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 arm	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arm	nmod:poss
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rests	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 knows	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 waits	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 waiting	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 waiting	aux
20	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 knows	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waits	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	present	boy			for a pause	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest	present	boy not said here	boy's hand	card's arm	gently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Location
3	know	present	card				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	wait	present · progressive	boy				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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:8.

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 ×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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