"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 20

Doctors often run late because some patients need more time than planned; arriving at 10:00 for 10:10 and being called at 10:35 means 25 minutes after the booked time.

Who acts: Doctors, patients · What happens: run, need, plan, arrive, call, mean · To what, where: 10:00, 10:35 · 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 (Doctors, patients), 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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 run	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 need	mark
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 patients	det
7	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	advcl
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 planned	mark
12	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 need	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 arriving	punct
14	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 run	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 10:00	case
16	10:00	10:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 arriving	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 10:10	case
18	10:10	10:10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 arriving	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 arriving	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 10:35	case
23	10:35	10:35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 called	obl
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	ccomp
25	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 minutes	nummod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 means	obj
27	after	after	ADP	_	30 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	booked	book	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 minutes	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Doctors			late, often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	some patients		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	plan	participle	some patients not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	arrive	gerund		10:00		for 10:10	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call speech: assert	gerund · passive		10:35			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic
6	mean	present			minute		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	book	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:20.

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 ×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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