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title: Important trips need a buffer, spare time in case something goes wro… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: Important trips need a buffer, spare time in case something goes wrong. Who acts: Important trips, buffer, something. 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 every clause
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 5

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Important trips need a buffer, spare time in case something goes wrong.

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**Who acts:** Important trips, buffer, something · **What happens:** need, spare, go · **To what, where:** buffer

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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 (Important trips, buffer, something), 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:5
# text = Important trips need a buffer, spare time in case something goes wrong.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	buffer	buffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	fixed	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **need** | present | Important trips | a buffer |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot buffer=Theme |
| 2 | **spare** | infinitive | a buffer *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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