--- title: When you need to speak while someone is talking, you wait for a paus… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: When you need to speak while someone is talking, you wait for a pause, or say "Excuse me" first; you also let people finish their own sentences. Who acts: you, someone, people. 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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, someone, people), 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:3 # text = When you need to speak while someone is talking, you wait for a pause, or say "Excuse me" first; you also let people finish their own sentences. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Excuse excuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 23 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **talk** | present · progressive | someone | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wait** | present | you | | | | | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **excuse** *in a quote* | infinitive | | me | | | | first *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **let** | present | you | people | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **finish** | infinitive | people *not said here* | people's own sentences | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality | | 9 | **sentence** | | people | | | | | | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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