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title: Doctors run late too, because some patients need more time than plan… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors run late too, because some patients need more time than planned. Who acts: Doctors, patients. A sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 11

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Doctors run late too, because some patients need more time than planned.

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**Who acts:** Doctors, patients · **What happens:** run, need, plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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 (Doctors, patients), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:11
# text = Doctors run late too, because some patients need more time than planned.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **run** | present | Doctors |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | some patients |  |  |  | time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **plan** | participle | some patients *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:11`.

**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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