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title: Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same. Who acts: Waiting, time. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 16

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Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same.

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**Who acts:** Waiting, time · **What happens:** wait, be, count · **To what, where:** turn, queue, same

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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 (Waiting, time), 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:16
# text = Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same.
# 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): no change
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **wait** | gerund |  | your turn |  | a queue |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Waiting |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present | everyone's time | the same |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme |

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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:129-being-on-time-around-the-world.lesson:16`.

**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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