"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 1
People mean their promise, then lose track while they play.
Who acts: People · What happens: mean, lose, play, promise · To what, where: promise, track
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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 (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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mean | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lose | advmod |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mean | parataxis |
| 8 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obj |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 play | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 play | nsubj |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lose | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | People | People's promise | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | track | then | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | play | present | People | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | promise | People | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:1.
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 ×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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