Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 2
In Germany on time often means a few minutes early; in Brazil, arriving a bit late to a party at a friend's home is normal and polite, though school and work start on the dot in both.
Who acts: time, arriving, school · What happens: mean, arrive, be, start · To what, where: Brazil, dot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (time, arriving, school), 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 | _ | 2 Germany | case |
| 2 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minutes | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 minutes | amod |
| 9 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 early | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 means | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Brazil | case |
| 13 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 arriving | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Brazil | punct |
| 15 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 normal | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bit | det |
| 17 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 late | obl |
| 18 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 arriving | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 party | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 party | det |
| 21 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arriving | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 party | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 normal | cop |
| 28 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 polite | cc |
| 30 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 normal | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 start | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 36 start | mark |
| 33 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 start | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 work | cc |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 school | conj |
| 36 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 normal | advcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 dot | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 dot | det |
| 39 | dot | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 start | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 both | case |
| 41 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 start | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | time | in Germany; early, often property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in germany=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | Brazil | to a party at a friend's home; late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | arriving | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | arriving not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | start | present | school and work | the dot | in both | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:2.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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