--- title: Being patient means waiting calmly without fussing; it is not an amo… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: Being patient means waiting calmly without fussing; it is not an amount of time. Who acts: toaster. 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. --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 18 Being patient means waiting calmly without fussing; it is not an amount of time. **Who acts:** toaster · **What happens:** be, mean, wait, fuss, not be · **To what, where:** amount · **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 (toaster), 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:18 # text = Being patient means waiting calmly without fussing; it is not an amount of time. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 csubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fussing fuss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | patient *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wait** *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | calmly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fuss** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | toaster | a amount | | | time | | 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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/17/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)