"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 18
Being patient means waiting calmly without fussing; it is not an amount of time.
Who acts: toaster · What happens: be, mean, wait, fuss, not be · To what, where: amount · 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 (toaster), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 patient | cop |
| 2 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | csubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 waiting | advmod |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 fussing | mark |
| 7 | fussing | fuss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 waiting | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 amount | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 amount | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 amount | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 amount | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 amount | det |
| 13 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 amount | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | patient property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | gerund | calmly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fuss | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is a | present | toaster | a amount | time | 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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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