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title: Arriving 5 to 15 minutes early for an appointment is good: you can s… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: Arriving 5 to 15 minutes early for an appointment is good: you can sit down, calm down and fill in forms. Who acts: Arriving, 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 21

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Arriving 5 to 15 minutes early for an appointment is good: you can sit down, calm down and fill in forms.

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**Who acts:** Arriving, you · **What happens:** arrive, be, sit down, calm down, fill in · **To what, where:** forms

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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 (Arriving, 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:21
# text = Arriving 5 to 15 minutes early for an appointment is good: you can sit down, calm down and fill in forms.
# 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): no change
1	Arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a appointment; early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Arriving |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **calm down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fill in** | infinitive | you *not said here* | forms |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent form=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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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