--- title: Ali says, "I've been waiting ages!" He got to the park at 3:50 and i… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: Ali says, "I've been waiting ages!" He got to the park at 3:50 and it is 4:05: 10 minutes to 4:00, then 5 more, only 15 minutes. Who acts: Ali, trick. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / 2 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 2 Ali says, "I've been waiting ages!" He got to the park at 3:50 and it is 4:05: 10 minutes to 4:00, then 5 more, only 15 minutes. **Who acts:** Ali, trick · **What happens:** say, wait, get, be · **To what, where:** ages, 3:50, 4:05 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (Ali, trick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:2 # text = Ali says, "I've been waiting ages!" He got to the park at 3:50 and it is 4:05: 10 minutes to 4:00, then 5 more, only 15 minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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 ×3 1 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux _ _ 8 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 12 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 3:50 3:50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 4:05 4:05 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 4:00 4:00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 30 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Ali | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Ali | ages | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | past | Ali | | | 3:50 | | to the park *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to park=Result | | 4 | **is a** | present | trick | 4:05 | | | | | tree rules | 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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:2`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [How long since? Counting back, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/1/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)