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title: A text saying "omw" (on my way) tells you nothing about how far away… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: A text saying "omw" (on my way) tells you nothing about how far away someone is; ask "how many minutes?" instead. Who acts: text, someone. 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 o
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# "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 6

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A text saying "omw" (on my way) tells you nothing about how far away someone is; ask "how many minutes?" instead.

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**Who acts:** text, someone · **What happens:** say, tell, be, ask · **To what, where:** omw, nothing, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (text, someone), 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:6
# text = A text saying "omw" (on my way) tells you nothing about how far away someone is; ask "how many minutes?" instead.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	root	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	omw	omw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
15	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
29	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a text *not said here* | omw |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent omw=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | nothing | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | someone |  |  |  | minute | instead *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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