"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 23

"A jiffy", "a tick", "a mo" and "two shakes" all mean a short moment, but nobody measures them; "back in a jiffy" once took 12 minutes.

Who acts: jiffy, nobody · What happens: mean, measure, take · To what, where: shakes

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 (jiffy, nobody), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jiffy	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jiffy	det
3	jiffy	jiffy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mean	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 jiffy	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tick	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tick	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tick	det
8	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jiffy	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tick	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 jiffy	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mo	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mo	det
13	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jiffy	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mo	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shakes	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 shakes	punct
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 shakes	nummod
18	shakes	shake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mo	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 shakes	punct
20	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 mean	advmod
21	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 moment	det
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mean	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 measures	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 measures	cc
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 measures	nsubj
28	measures	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 measures	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 back	punct
32	back	back	ADV	_	38 took	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 jiffy	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 jiffy	det
35	jiffy	jiffy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 back	obl
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 jiffy	punct
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 took	advmod
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	parataxis
39	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 minutes	nummod
40	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 took	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 mean	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	mean	present	a jiffy and a tick and a mo and two shakes		moment	all property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	measure	present	nobody	shakes = shake			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value
3	take	past			minute	once property	vn bring-11.3 «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:23.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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