"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 5
In South Africa "now now" means soon, maybe in a while, and "just now" can even mean later.
What happens: mean
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Africa | case |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Africa | compound |
| 3 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Africa | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 means | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 means | advmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 now | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 means | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 while | punct |
| 11 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 14 while | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 while | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mean | cc |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 now | advmod |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 mean | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 now | punct |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 mean | aux |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 mean | advmod |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | conj |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 mean | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | now; now | in South Africa; soon property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in africa=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | mean | can | now | late property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:5.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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