--- title: Japan's trains are famous for it: in 2017 a company said sorry in pu… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: Japan's trains are famous for it: in 2017 a company said sorry in public because a train left 20 seconds early, since early is wrong too when people plan to catch it. Who acts: trains, company, train, people. 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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 (trains, company, train, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:1 # text = Japan's trains are famous for it: in 2017 a company said sorry in public because a train left 20 seconds early, since early is wrong too when people plan to catch it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 129-being-on-time-around-the-world.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 23 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 since since SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Japan's trains | | | | | for it; famous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | a company | | | 2017 | | sorry *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in 2017=Manner | | 3 | **leave** | past | a train | | | | | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | early, wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **plan** | present | people | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | company | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/0/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)