Whose turn is it?, sentence 14
Zara kept letting everyone go first and then never got a turn at all, until Mia said «Zara's been waiting longest, she's on», and Zara beamed.
Who acts: Zara, everyone, Mia, turn · What happens: keep, let, go, not get, say, wait · To what, where: everyone, turn, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Zara, everyone, Mia, turn), 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 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | letting | let | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 letting | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 letting | xcomp |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 turn | det |
| 12 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 got | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 17 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | advcl |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 20 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 waiting | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 waiting | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 waiting | aux |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 waiting | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 on | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 on | nsubj |
| 27 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 on | cop |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 waiting | parataxis |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 waiting | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 beamed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 beamed | cc |
| 32 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 beamed | nsubj |
| 33 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Zara | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | gerund | Zara not said here | everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | everyone not said here | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get | past | Zara not said here | a turn | all | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at all=Asset | ||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Mia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wait in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Zara | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | turn | on property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | beam | past | Zara | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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