--- title: If you must interrupt, you say "Excuse me" or "Sorry to interrupt" f… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: If you must interrupt, you say "Excuse me" or "Sorry to interrupt" first; when it is urgent, like someone being hurt, you interrupt straight away. 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:15 # text = If you must interrupt, you say "Excuse me" or "Sorry to interrupt" first; when it is urgent, like someone being hurt, you interrupt straight away. # 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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 interrupt interrupt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 interrupt interrupt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 urgent urgent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 conj _ _ 27 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 interrupt interrupt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 32 straight straight ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **interrupt** *a condition, not said to happen* | must | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **interrupt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | parent | | | | | urgent *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 7 | **interrupt** | present | you | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×2. **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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