"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 21
Asking every 5 minutes for 30 minutes means asking 6 times, because 30 ÷ 5 = 6.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, mean · 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 (Asking), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | csubj |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Asking | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 6 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 means | obl |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asking | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 6 | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 18 6 | mark |
| 14 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ÷ | nummod |
| 15 | ÷ | ÷ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 6 | nsubj |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 ÷ | flat |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 6 | punct |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 means | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | minute | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Asking | minute | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | gerund | Asking not said here | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:21.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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