--- title: To speak while a parent talks to someone, you wait for a pause or pu… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: To speak while a parent talks to someone, you wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait. Who acts: you, parent. 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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 (you, parent), 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:13 # text = To speak while a parent talks to someone, you wait for a pause or put your hand gently on their arm and wait. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 3 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 5 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **talk** | present | a parent | | | | | to someone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | | 3 | **wait** | present | you | | | | | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hand | | turns's arm | | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination | | 5 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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](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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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