--- title: People often say a short time and take longer; Mum's "10 minutes" th… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: People often say a short time and take longer; Mum's "10 minutes" that became 25 was 15 minutes longer. Who acts: People, 10 minutes. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/14/) [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/) / ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/) / 14 # "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 14 People often say a short time and take longer; Mum's "10 minutes" that became 25 was 15 minutes longer. **Who acts:** People, 10 minutes · **What happens:** say, take, become, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (People, 10 minutes), 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:14 # text = People often say a short time and take longer; Mum's "10 minutes" that became 25 was 15 minutes longer. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 xcomp _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | People | | | | time | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | present | People *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | 10 minutes | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | minute | long *property* | 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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/13/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)