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title: When two people are both sure they are next, a quick fair way like r… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: When two people are both sure they are next, a quick fair way like rock, paper, scissors settles it faster than shouting. Who acts: two people, people, quick fair way. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 22

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When two people are both sure they are next, a quick fair way like rock, paper, scissors settles it faster than shouting.

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**Who acts:** two people, people, quick fair way · **What happens:** be, settle, shout · **To what, where:** paper

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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 (two people, people, quick fair way), 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:22
# text = When two people are both sure they are next, a quick fair way like rock, paper, scissors settles it faster than shouting.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	next	next	ADV	RB	_	6	ccomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
20	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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** | present | two people |  |  |  |  | both, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | present | a quick fair way like rock and paper and scissors | paper |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:22`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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