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title: Brothers and sisters can share the front seat by taking turns, for e… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics
description: Brothers and sisters can share the front seat by taking turns, for example on alternate days. Who acts: Brothers. A sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 11

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Brothers and sisters can share the front seat by taking turns, for example on alternate days.

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**Who acts:** Brothers · **What happens:** share, take · **To what, where:** front seat, turns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday 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 (Brothers), 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:11
# text = Brothers and sisters can share the front seat by taking turns, for example on alternate days.
# 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): no change
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	alternate	alternate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | can | Brothers and sisters | the front seat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Brothers and sisters *not said here* | turns |  |  | day | for example | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent turn=Theme for example=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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: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): 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/).

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