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title: Taking turns ends arguments fairly: on the swings, in the front seat… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking turns ends arguments fairly: on the swings, in the front seat of the car, and in a group discussion, where everyone's ideas matter. Who acts: Taking, ideas. A sentence of the lesson «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Queues, taking turns and interrupting, sentence 2

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Taking turns ends arguments fairly: on the swings, in the front seat of the car, and in a group discussion, where everyone's ideas matter.

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**Who acts:** Taking, ideas · **What happens:** take, end, matter · **To what, where:** turns, arguments, swings

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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 (Taking, ideas), 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:2
# text = Taking turns ends arguments fairly: on the swings, in the front seat of the car, and in a group discussion, where everyone's ideas matter.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swings	swing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | gerund |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | present | Taking | arguments |  | the swings and the front seat of the car and a group discussion |  | fairly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality argument=Eventuality |
| 3 | **matter** | present | everyone's ideas |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): 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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