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title: Everyone else was bored and cross, but Kai honestly thought it had b… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone else was bored and cross, but Kai honestly thought it had been ten minutes, because time flies when you are playing and crawls when you are waiting. Who acts: Everyone, Kai, controller, time. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 2

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Everyone else was bored and cross, but Kai honestly thought it had been ten minutes, because time flies when you are playing and crawls when you are waiting.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, Kai, controller, time, you · **What happens:** be, think, fly, play, crawl, wait · **To what, where:** ten minutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Everyone, Kai, controller, time), 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:2
# text = Everyone else was bored and cross, but Kai honestly thought it had been ten minutes, because time flies when you are playing and crawls when you are waiting.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everyone |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Kai |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | controller | ten minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | present | time |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **play** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **crawl** | present | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **wait** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): 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/).

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