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title: For school, trains, the dentist and a match, be on time or a bit ear… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics
description: For school, trains, the dentist and a match, be on time or a bit early; a coach who says "if you're on time, you're late" wants you there early to warm up. Who acts: coach, 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
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# Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 9

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For school, trains, the dentist and a match, be on time or a bit early; a coach who says "if you're on time, you're late" wants you there early to warm up.

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**Who acts:** coach, you · **What happens:** be, say, want, warm up · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (coach, 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:9
# text = For school, trains, the dentist and a match, be on time or a bit early; a coach who says "if you're on time, you're late" wants you there early to warm up.
# 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 ×3
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
27	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
38	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | on time or a bit |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  | time | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | present | a coach *not said here* | you |  | there |  | early *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 5 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | a coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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**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 ×3. **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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