--- title: In the UK people value queuing very highly, and jumping the queue ma… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK people value queuing very highly, and jumping the queue makes them upset; knowing such customs helps you avoid offending anyone. Who acts: people, jumping, knowing, you. 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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 (people, jumping, knowing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:1 # text = In the UK people value queuing very highly, and jumping the queue makes them upset; knowing such customs helps you avoid offending anyone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 value value VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 queuing queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 highly highly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 19 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 offending offend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 xcomp _ _ 25 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **value** | present | people | queuing | | the UK | | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queue=Stimulus | | 2 | **jump** | gerund | | the queue | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queue=Trajectory | | 3 | **make** | present | jumping | people | | | | upset *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **know** | gerund | | such customs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer custom=Stimulus | | 5 | **help** | present | knowing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **avoid** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **offend** | gerund | you *not said here* | anyone | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer | 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:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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