"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 22

Live bus signs are guesses that change with traffic: "4 min" that becomes "2 min" after 4 minutes means a 6-minute wait in total.

Who acts: Live bus signs, guesses, 4 min · What happens: be, change, become, mean · To what, where: guesses, 2 min, minute wait

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 (Live bus signs, guesses, 4 min), 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	Live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signs	amod
2	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signs	compound
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guesses	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guesses	cop
5	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 change	nsubj
7	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guesses	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 traffic	case
9	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 becomes	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 min	punct
12	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 min	nummod
13	min	min	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 min	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 becomes	nsubj
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 min	acl:relcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 min	punct
18	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 min	nummod
19	min	min	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	xcomp
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 min	punct
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 minutes	case
22	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 minutes	nummod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 becomes	obl
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guesses	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wait	det
26	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 minute	nummod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 6	punct
28	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wait	compound
29	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 total	case
31	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wait	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guesses	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Live bus signs	guesses			tree rules
2	change	present	guesses			with traffic	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	present	4 min	2 min	minute		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	mean	present	4 min	a minute wait		in total	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot wait=Theme in total=Attribute

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:22.

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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