--- title: When a classmate stammers, wait patiently and do not finish their wo… — Respect for first peoples, older people and peop… · tree and pragmatics description: When a classmate stammers, wait patiently and do not finish their words. Who acts: classmate, you, people. A sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/) / 17 # Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities, sentence 17 When a classmate stammers, wait patiently and do not finish their words. **Who acts:** classmate, you, people · **What happens:** stammer, wait, not finish, word · **To what, where:** words This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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 (classmate, you, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:17 # text = When a classmate stammers, wait patiently and do not finish their words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 227-older-people-and-disabilities.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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 classmate classmate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stammers stammer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stammer** *speech: other* | present | a classmate | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | patiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **finish** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | people's words | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | | 4 | **word** | | people | | | | | | nom word «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:227-older-people-and-disabilities.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/16/) - next →: [Respect for first peoples, older peopl…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/)