How long since? Counting back, sentence 2
Ali says, "I've been waiting ages!" He got to the park at 3:50 and it is 4:05: 10 minutes to 4:00, then 5 more, only 15 minutes.
Who acts: Ali, trick · What happens: say, wait, get, be · To what, where: ages, 3:50, 4:05 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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 (Ali, trick), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waiting | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 park | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 park | det |
| 16 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 3:50 | case |
| 18 | 3:50 | 3:50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 4:05 | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 4:05 | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 4:05 | cop |
| 22 | 4:05 | 4:05 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 got | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 minutes | punct |
| 24 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 4:05 | appos |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 4:00 | case |
| 27 | 4:00 | 4:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 more | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 more | advmod |
| 30 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 more | nummod |
| 31 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 says | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 minutes | punct |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 15 | advmod |
| 34 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 minutes | nummod |
| 35 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 more | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Ali | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Ali | ages | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Ali | 3:50 | to the park result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to park=Result | |||
| 4 | is a | present | trick | 4:05 | tree rules |
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:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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