--- title: Zara kept letting everyone go first and then never got a turn at all… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics description: Zara kept letting everyone go first and then never got a turn at all, until Mia said «Zara's been waiting longest, she's on», and Zara beamed. Who acts: Zara, everyone, Mia, turn. 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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 (Zara, everyone, Mia, turn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:14 # text = Zara kept letting everyone go first and then never got a turn at all, until Mia said «Zara's been waiting longest, she's on», and Zara beamed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 397-whose-turn-is-it.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 until until SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 20 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:aux 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux _ _ 23 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 24 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 on on ADV RB _ 23 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 Zara Zara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 beamed beam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **keep** | past | Zara | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | gerund | Zara *not said here* | everyone | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **get** | past | Zara *not said here* | a turn | | all | then | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent turn=Theme at all=Asset | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mia | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Zara | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | turn | | | | | on *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **beam** | past | Zara | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Whose turn is it?, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/13/) - next →: [Whose turn is it?, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/)