"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 14

People often say a short time and take longer; Mum's "10 minutes" that became 25 was 15 minutes longer.

Who acts: People, 10 minutes · What happens: say, take, become, be · 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 (People, 10 minutes), 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	3 say	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 take	cc
8	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 take	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 Mum	punct
11	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Mum	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 minutes	punct
14	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 minutes	nummod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Mum	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 minutes	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 minutes	acl:relcl
19	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 became	xcomp
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 longer	cop
21	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 minutes	nummod
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 longer	obl:unmarked
23	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 became	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	People	time	often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	People not said here		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	10 minutes			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past		minute	long property	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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.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): R8-pos-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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