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title: "Glad you could join us" said to someone 10 minutes late is sarcasm:… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: "Glad you could join us" said to someone 10 minutes late is sarcasm: kind words that really mean "you're late and I noticed". Who acts: someone, kind words, you, People. A sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 12

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"Glad you could join us" said to someone 10 minutes late is sarcasm: kind words that really mean "you're late and I noticed".

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**Who acts:** someone, kind words, you, People · **What happens:** join, say, be, mean, notice · **To what, where:** us, someone, sarcasm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» 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 (someone, kind words, you, People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:12
# text = "Glad you could join us" said to someone 10 minutes late is sarcasm: kind words that really mean "you're late and I noticed".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 106-late-and-early-being-on-time.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **join** *in a quote* | could | someone | us |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | someone |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | sarcasm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | kind words |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **notice** *in a quote* | past | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:12`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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