--- title: Live bus signs are guesses that change with traffic: "4 min" that be… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: Live bus signs are guesses that change with traffic: "4 min" that becomes "2 min" after 4 minutes means a 6-minute wait in total. Who acts: Live bus signs, guesses, 4 min. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Live bus signs, guesses, 4 min), 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:22 # text = Live bus signs are guesses that change with traffic: "4 min" that becomes "2 min" after 4 minutes means a 6-minute wait in total. # 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 Live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 guesses guess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 min min NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 min min NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 total total NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Live bus signs | guesses | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | present | guesses | | | | | with traffic | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | present | 4 min | 2 min | | | minute | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | 4 min | a minute wait | | | | in total | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot wait=Theme in total=Attribute | 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:22`. **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…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/21/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)