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title: A short break, like going to the toilet, does not mean giving up you… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: A short break, like going to the toilet, does not mean giving up your turn. Who acts: short break. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 21

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A short break, like going to the toilet, does not mean giving up your turn.

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**Who acts:** short break · **What happens:** go, not mean, give up · **To what, where:** toilet, turn

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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 (short break), 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:21
# text = A short break, like going to the toilet, does not mean giving up your turn.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **go** | gerund | a short break *not said here* |  |  | the toilet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a short break |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give up** *not said to happen* | gerund | a short break *not said here* | your turn |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Source |

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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:21`.

**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/).

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