"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 26
Words people use: "pull the plug" means switch it off, "classic" means typical, "ain't" means isn't, "you're having a laugh" means you must be joking (UK), "lekker" means great (South Africa) and "lah" is added to the end of sentences in Singapore.
Who acts: people, classic, ai, you, lekker · What happens: not use, pull, mean, switch off, not be, have · To what, where: Words, plug, typical, laugh, lah · 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 (people, classic, ai, you), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | acl:relcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 pull | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pull | punct |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plug | det |
| 8 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pull | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 11 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 means | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 switch | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 switch | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 classic | punct |
| 16 | classic | classic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 classic | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 19 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 means | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ai | punct |
| 22 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 means | nsubj |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 use | advmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | ccomp |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 is | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 having | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 having | nsubj |
| 31 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 having | aux |
| 32 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 means | nsubj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 laugh | det |
| 34 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 having | obj |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 having | punct |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 joking | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 joking | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 joking | aux |
| 40 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 means | ccomp |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 UK | punct |
| 42 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 joking | dep |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 UK | punct |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 means | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 lekker | punct |
| 46 | lekker | lekker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 means | nsubj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 lekker | punct |
| 48 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | parataxis |
| 49 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 means | xcomp |
| 50 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 52 Africa | punct |
| 51 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Africa | compound |
| 52 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 means | dep |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 52 Africa | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 added | cc |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 lah | punct |
| 56 | lah | lah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 added | nsubj:pass |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 lah | punct |
| 58 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 added | aux:pass |
| 59 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 means | conj |
| 60 | to | to | ADP | _ | 62 end | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 end | det |
| 62 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 added | obl |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 sentences | case |
| 64 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 end | nmod |
| 65 | in | in | ADP | _ | 66 Singapore | case |
| 66 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 sentences | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | present | people | Words not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull in a quote | infinitive | the plug | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | switch off | infinitive | plug | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | classic | typical | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent typical=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | ai | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | have in a quote | present · progressive | you | a laugh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 10 | joke speech: other | must · progressive | you | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | mean | present | lekker | great property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 12 | add speech: assert | present · passive | lah | to the end of sentences in Singapore | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to end=Co-Patient |
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:26.
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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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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