--- title: Queue comes from French, where it means "tail", and is spelled Q-U-E… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics description: Queue comes from French, where it means "tail", and is spelled Q-U-E-U-E: you hear only the Q, and the four letters after it add no sound. Who acts: Queue, you, four letters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queue, you, four letters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:13 # text = Queue comes from French, where it means "tail", and is spelled Q-U-E-U-E: you hear only the Q, and the four letters after it add no sound. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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): no change 1 Queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 16 Q Q NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 U U PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 E E PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 22 U U PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 24 E E PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Q Q NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 40 det _ _ 40 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Queue | | | French | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | queue | tail | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Topic | | 3 | **spell** | present · passive | Queue *not said here* | Q | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: q=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | present | you | the Q | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer q=Stimulus | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the four letters after queue | no sound | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/12/) - next →: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/)