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title: In South Africa "now now" means soon, maybe in a while, and "just no… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: In South Africa "now now" means soon, maybe in a while, and "just now" can even mean later. 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.
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# "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 5

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In South Africa "now now" means soon, maybe in a while, and "just now" can even mean later.

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**What happens:** mean

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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: 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:5
# text = In South Africa "now now" means soon, maybe in a while, and "just now" can even mean later.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  | now; now | in South Africa; soon *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in africa=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | can |  |  |  |  | now | late *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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**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:5`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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