--- title: A girl in Melbourne wants to tell her dad something while he is talk… — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Melbourne wants to tell her dad something while he is talking to a neighbour; she puts her hand gently on his arm and waits, and he turns to her at the next pause. Who acts: girl, Melbourne. 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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 (girl, Melbourne), 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:4 # text = A girl in Melbourne wants to tell her dad something while he is talking to a neighbour; she puts her hand gently on his arm and waits, and he turns to her at the next pause. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss 9 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 gently gently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | a girl in Melbourne | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl in Melbourne *not said here* | something | girl's dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient something=Topic | | 3 | **talk** | present · progressive | Melbourne | | | | | to a neighbour | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Co-Agent | | 4 | **put** | present | girl | girl's hand | | Melbourne's arm | | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Destination | | 5 | **wait** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **turn** | present | Melbourne | | girl | the next pause | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to her=Source at pause=Trajectory | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Queues, taking turns and interrupting, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/3/) - next →: [Queues, taking turns and interrupting, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/)