--- title: "A jiffy", "a tick", "a mo" and "two shakes" all mean a short moment… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: "A jiffy", "a tick", "a mo" and "two shakes" all mean a short moment, but nobody measures them; "back in a jiffy" once took 12 minutes. Who acts: jiffy, nobody. 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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 (jiffy, nobody), 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:23 # text = "A jiffy", "a tick", "a mo" and "two shakes" all mean a short moment, but nobody measures them; "back in a jiffy" once took 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 jiffy jiffy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mo mo NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 shakes shake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 28 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 32 back back ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 jiffy jiffy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 38 advmod _ _ 38 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 39 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38: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 | **mean** | present | a jiffy and a tick and a mo and two shakes | | | | moment | all *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **measure** | present | nobody | shakes *= shake* | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value | | 3 | **take** | past | | | | | minute | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:23`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/22/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)