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title: Then he said guests should get longer turns; Mia's mum said guests m… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said guests should get longer turns; Mia's mum said guests may go first, but every turn stays the same length. Who acts: Ruby, guests, mum, 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 
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 9

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Then he said guests should get longer turns; Mia's mum said guests may go first, but every turn stays the same length.

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**Who acts:** Ruby, guests, mum, turn · **What happens:** say, get, go, stay · **To what, where:** longer turns, same length · **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 (Ruby, guests, mum, 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:9
# text = Then he said guests should get longer turns; Mia's mum said guests may go first, but every turn stays the same length.
# 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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Ruby |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | should | guests | longer turns |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mia's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | may | guests |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | present | every turn | the same length |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme length=Location |

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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:9`.

**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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