--- title: "It's about time" at a wedding means the couple have been together a… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: "It's about time" at a wedding means the couple have been together a long time and people wondered when they would marry. Who acts: ring, couple, people. A sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Dates, engagements and weddings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/) / 11 # Dates, engagements and weddings, sentence 11 "It's about time" at a wedding means the couple have been together a long time and people wondered when they would marry. **Who acts:** ring, couple, people · **What happens:** be, mean, wonder, marry · **To what, where:** wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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 (ring, couple, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:11 # text = "It's about time" at a wedding means the couple have been together a long time and people wondered when they would marry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:expl 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 10 ccomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wondered wonder VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | ring | | | | about time | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | a wedding | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present · perfect | the couple | | | | time | together *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | people | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **marry** | would | people | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/9/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)