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title: Many waiting words are stretchy, not exact: "in a bit", "back in a j… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: Many waiting words are stretchy, not exact: "in a bit", "back in a jiffy", "a tick", "a mo", "two shakes". Who acts: Many waiting words. 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 
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# "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 4

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Many waiting words are stretchy, not exact: "in a bit", "back in a jiffy", "a tick", "a mo", "two shakes".

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**Who acts:** Many waiting words · **What happens:** be, not be

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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 (Many waiting words), 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:4
# text = Many waiting words are stretchy, not exact: "in a bit", "back in a jiffy", "a tick", "a mo", "two shakes".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	jiffy	jiffy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mo	mo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	shakes	shake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Many waiting words |  |  |  |  | stretchy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | Many waiting words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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