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title: At parties in many countries people arrive a little after the start… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: At parties in many countries people arrive a little after the start time, but for school, trains and appointments you should be on time. Who acts: people, you. 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 dependen
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 19

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At parties in many countries people arrive a little after the start time, but for school, trains and appointments you should be on time.

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**Who acts:** people, you · **What happens:** arrive, be · **To what, where:** trains, parties

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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 (people, you), 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:19
# text = At parties in many countries people arrive a little after the start time, but for school, trains and appointments you should be on time.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
19	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	appointments	appointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | people | trains and appointments |  | parties in many countries | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | should | you |  |  |  | on time |  | 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:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:19`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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