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title: Some coaches and teachers want you there before the start, so you ca… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: Some coaches and teachers want you there before the start, so you can warm up or settle in; "on time" for them means early. Who acts: coaches, you, time. 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 its dependency tre
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 18

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Some coaches and teachers want you there before the start, so you can warm up or settle in; "on time" for them means early.

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**Who acts:** coaches, you, time · **What happens:** want, warm up, settle in, mean · **To what, where:** you

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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 (coaches, you, time), 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:18
# text = Some coaches and teachers want you there before the start, so you can warm up or settle in; "on time" for them means early.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **want** | present | some coaches and teachers | you |  | there | before the start |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 2 | **warm up** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **settle in** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | time |  |  |  |  | for teachers *= teacher*; early *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for they=Attribute |

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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:18`.

**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): 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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