--- title: Asking every 5 minutes for 30 minutes means asking 6 times, because… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: Asking every 5 minutes for 30 minutes means asking 6 times, because 30 ÷ 5 = 6. Who acts: Asking. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 21 Asking every 5 minutes for 30 minutes means asking 6 times, because 30 ÷ 5 = 6. **Who acts:** Asking · **What happens:** ask, mean · **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 (Asking), 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:21 # text = Asking every 5 minutes for 30 minutes means asking 6 times, because 30 ÷ 5 = 6. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 10 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 18 mark _ _ 14 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 ÷ ÷ NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 = = SYM SYM _ 18 punct _ _ 18 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | minute | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Asking | | | | minute | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | gerund | Asking *not said here* | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/20/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)