--- title: Being kind does not mean never asking for your own turn. — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics description: Being kind does not mean never asking for your own turn. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/25/) [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/) / [Whose turn is it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/) / 25 # Whose turn is it?, sentence 25 Being kind does not mean never asking for your own turn. **What happens:** be, not mean, not ask · **To what, where:** kind 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: 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:25 # text = Being kind does not mean never asking for your own 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 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advmod _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | gerund | | kind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | for your own turn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:25`. **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/). - ← previous: [Whose turn is it?, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/24/) - next →: [Whose turn is it?, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/)