--- title: A queue wait can be worked out by multiplying the people in front by… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: A queue wait can be worked out by multiplying the people in front by the time each takes: 4 × 3 = 12 minutes. Who acts: each. 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 claus --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 15 A queue wait can be worked out by multiplying the people in front by the time each takes: 4 × 3 = 12 minutes. **Who acts:** each · **What happens:** work out, multiply, take · **To what, where:** queue wait, people, front, time 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 (each), 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:15 # text = A queue wait can be worked out by multiplying the people in front by the time each takes: 4 × 3 = 12 minutes. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 multiplying multiply VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 18 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 21 × × SYM SYM _ 22 case _ _ 22 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 = = SYM SYM _ 24 case _ _ 24 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 25 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work out** | can · passive | | a queue wait | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **multiply** | gerund | | the people | | front | time | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **take** | present | each | the time *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | 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:15`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/14/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)