"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 4
Many waiting words are stretchy, not exact: "in a bit", "back in a jiffy", "a tick", "a mo", "two shakes".
Who acts: Many waiting words · What happens: be, not be
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 (Many waiting words), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 2 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | compound |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stretchy | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stretchy | cop |
| 5 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exact | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 exact | advmod |
| 8 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stretchy | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretchy | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jiffy | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bit | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 back | punct |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 jiffy | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 jiffy | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jiffy | det |
| 20 | jiffy | jiffy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretchy | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 jiffy | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tick | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tick | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tick | det |
| 25 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretchy | parataxis |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tick | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretchy | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mo | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mo | det |
| 30 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretchy | conj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 mo | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shakes | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 shakes | punct |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 shakes | nummod |
| 35 | shakes | shake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stretchy | appos |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 shakes | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretchy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many waiting words | stretchy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | Many waiting words not said here | tree rules |
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:4.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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