Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 6
Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same, and pushing in steals other people's minutes.
Who acts: Waiting, time, pushing · What happens: wait, be, count, push in, steal · To what, where: turn, queue, same
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 (Waiting, time, pushing), 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fair | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 queue | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 queue | det |
| 6 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waiting | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 counts | mark |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 time | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 everyone | case |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 counts | nsubj |
| 13 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 counts | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 steals | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 steals | cc |
| 18 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 steals | csubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pushing | compound:prt |
| 20 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 counts | conj |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 minutes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 people | case |
| 24 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 steals | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | your turn | a queue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Waiting | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | count | present | everyone's time | the same | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push in | gerund | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | steal | present | pushing | minute | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): 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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