Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 12
Waiting for a pause before you speak shows people respect.
Who acts: you, Waiting · What happens: wait, speak, show · To what, where: people respect · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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, Waiting), 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shows | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 pause | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pause | det |
| 4 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obl |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 speak | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Waiting | advcl |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 respect | compound |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | present | Waiting | people respect | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:12.
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 ×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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