"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 6

A text saying "omw" (on my way) tells you nothing about how far away someone is; ask "how many minutes?" instead.

Who acts: text, someone · What happens: say, tell, be, ask · To what, where: omw, nothing, you · 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 (text, someone), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 text	acl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 omw	punct
5	omw	omw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 omw	punct
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 omw	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tells	iobj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 tells	obj
15	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 far	mark
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 nothing	acl
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
19	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 ask	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 far	cop
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tells	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 minutes	amod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ask	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
29	instead	instead	ADV	_	22 ask	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	a text not said here	omw				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent omw=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present		nothing	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic
3	is	present					away, far property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	someone			minute	instead property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:6.

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): no change. 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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