--- title: In Germany being on time often means a little early; in Brazil arriv… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: In Germany being on time often means a little early; in Brazil arriving a bit late to a visit at a friend's home is normal. Who acts: time, arriving. A sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Being on time around the world, waitin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/) / 15 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 15 In Germany being on time often means a little early; in Brazil arriving a bit late to a visit at a friend's home is normal. **Who acts:** time, arriving · **What happens:** be, mean, arrive · **To what, where:** visit, Brazil This is a sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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 (time, arriving), 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:15 # text = In Germany being on time often means a little early; in Brazil arriving a bit late to a visit at a friend's home is normal. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 14 arriving arrive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl:unmarked 17 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | gerund | | | | | on time | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | time | | | | | in Germany; often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in germany=Attribute | | 3 | **arrive** | gerund | | | | a visit at a friend's home | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to visit=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is** | present | arriving | | | Brazil | | normal *property* | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/14/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)