"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 15
A queue wait can be worked out by multiplying the people in front by the time each takes: 4 × 3 = 12 minutes.
Who acts: each · What happens: work out, multiply, take · To what, where: queue wait, people, front, time
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 (each), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wait | det |
| 2 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | compound |
| 3 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 worked | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 worked | aux:pass |
| 6 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 worked | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 multiplying | mark |
| 9 | multiplying | multiply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 worked | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 multiplying | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 multiplying | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 multiplying | obl |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 takes | nsubj |
| 18 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 4 | punct |
| 20 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 21 | × | × | SYM | _ | 22 3 | case |
| 22 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 4 | nmod |
| 23 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 12 | case |
| 24 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 minutes | nummod |
| 25 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worked | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work out | can · passive | a queue wait | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | multiply | gerund | the people | front | time | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | present | each | the time not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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