--- title: To speak to a parent who is talking, wait for a pause, or rest a han… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics description: To speak to a parent who is talking, wait for a pause, or rest a hand gently on their arm and wait. Who acts: you, parent. A sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/12/) [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/) / [Visiting, thanking for presents, waiti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/) / 12 # Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 12 To speak to a parent who is talking, wait for a pause, or rest a hand gently on their arm and wait. **Who acts:** you, parent · **What happens:** speak, talk, wait, rest · **To what, where:** hand, arm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden 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 (you, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:12 # text = To speak to a parent who is talking, wait for a pause, or rest a hand gently on their arm and wait. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 gently gently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | to a parent | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent | | 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | a parent | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a hand | | post's arm | | gently *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on arm=Location | | 5 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:12`. **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, 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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