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title: Doctors often run late because some patients need more time than pla… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: Doctors often run late because some patients need more time than planned; arriving at 10:00 for 10:10 and being called at 10:35 means 25 minutes after the booked time. Who acts: Doctors, patients. A sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» of the world course of Mova's pr
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# "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 20

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Doctors often run late because some patients need more time than planned; arriving at 10:00 for 10:10 and being called at 10:35 means 25 minutes after the booked time.

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**Who acts:** Doctors, patients · **What happens:** run, need, plan, arrive, call, mean · **To what, where:** 10:00, 10:35 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:20
# text = Doctors often run late because some patients need more time than planned; arriving at 10:00 for 10:10 and being called at 10:35 means 25 minutes after the booked 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	10:00	10:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	10:10	10:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	10:35	10:35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
25	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	booked	book	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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, often *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 |
| 4 | **arrive** | gerund |  |  |  | 10:00 |  | for 10:10 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive |  |  |  | 10:35 |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **book** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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**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.

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