--- title: Being on time shows respect for other people's time, and lateness is… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: Being on time shows respect for other people's time, and lateness is mostly fixed by habits: pack your bag the night before, leave a bit earlier, and arrive a few minutes early, like Ella's mum, who sits in the car at 9:50 for a 10:00 meeting. Who acts: habits, mum. 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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 (habits, mum), 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:10 # text = Being on time shows respect for other people's time, and lateness is mostly fixed by habits: pack your bag the night before, leave a bit earlier, and arrive a few minutes early, like Ella's mum, who sits in the car at 9:50 for a 10:00 meeting. # 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 1 Being be VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 lateness lateness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 habits habit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 pack pack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 before before ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 arrive arrive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obj 37 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 9:50 9:50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 obl _ _ 51 for for ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 10:00 10:00 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ _ 54 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | gerund | | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | | respect | | | for other people's time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | | 3 | **fix** | present · passive | habits | lateness | | | | mostly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 4 | **pack** | infinitive | | your bag | | | night | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | | | | | | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **arrive** | infinitive | | | | | | like Ella's mum; early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sit** | present | Ella's mum | | | the car | | at 9:50; for a 10:00 meeting | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location | 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:10`. **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. **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…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/9/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)