"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 10
Live signs and apps guess from where the bus is, and traffic changes the guess: "Next bus 4 min" can still say "2 min" four minutes later.
Who acts: Live signs, bus, traffic, bus min · What happens: guess, be, change, say · To what, where: guess, 2 min · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Live signs, bus, traffic, bus min), 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 | Live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 signs | amod |
| 2 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 apps | cc |
| 4 | apps | app | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 signs | conj |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 is | case |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 is | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bus | det |
| 9 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 changes | cc |
| 13 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changes | nsubj |
| 14 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 guess | det |
| 16 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changes | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 guess | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 min | punct |
| 19 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bus | amod |
| 20 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 min | compound |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 bus | flat |
| 22 | min | min | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 say | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 min | punct |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | aux |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 say | advmod |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 guess | parataxis |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 min | punct |
| 28 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 min | nummod |
| 29 | min | min | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 say | obj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 min | punct |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 minutes | nummod |
| 32 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 later | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 say | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | Live signs and apps | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | present | the bus | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | change | present | traffic | the guess | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | can | bus min | 2 min | still | late property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent min=Topic |
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:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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