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title: In a queue, multiply: 4 people in front, about 3 minutes each, is 12… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics
description: In a queue, multiply: 4 people in front, about 3 minutes each, is 12 minutes. Who acts: you. 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 8

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In a queue, multiply: 4 people in front, about 3 minutes each, is 12 minutes.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** multiply, be · **To what, where:** 4 people, queue, 12 minutes

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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 (you), 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:8
# text = In a queue, multiply: 4 people in front, about 3 minutes each, is 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:det
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | 4 people |  | a queue |  | in front | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | 12 minutes |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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): R7-rel-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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