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title: He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" No… — Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day · tree and pragmatics
description: He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" Now he waits for the 8:25, which is 13 more minutes. Who acts: Callum. A sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day, sentence 3

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He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" Now he waits for the 8:25, which is 13 more minutes.

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**Who acts:** Callum · **What happens:** reach, miss, wait, be · **To what, where:** stop, 8:12, 13 more minutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world 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 (Callum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:3
# text = He reaches the stop at 8:12: "Missed it by two flippin' minutes!" Now he waits for the 8:25, which is 13 more minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.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 ×3
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	8:12	8:12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	flippin	flippin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	Now	now	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	8:25	8:25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | Callum | the stop |  | 8:12 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** *in a quote* | past |  | stop |  |  | minute |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | present | Callum |  |  |  | now | for the 8:25 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | 13 more minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:104-timetables-buses-trains-school-day.lesson:3`.

**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 ×3. **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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