--- title: If you will be late, it is polite to tell people early, for example… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics description: If you will be late, it is polite to tell people early, for example with a text saying "running late". Who acts: you, text. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, text), 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:24 # text = If you will be late, it is polite to tell people early, for example with a text saying "running late". # 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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 ccomp _ _ 23 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | polite *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | people | | | for example with a text; early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a text *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **run** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:24`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/23/) - next →: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/)