--- title: In Germany on time often means a few minutes early; in Brazil, arriv… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: In Germany on time often means a few minutes early; in Brazil, arriving a bit late to a party at a friend's home is normal and polite, though school and work start on the dot in both. Who acts: time, arriving, school. A sentence of the lesson «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and de --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 2 In Germany on time often means a few minutes early; in Brazil, arriving a bit late to a party at a friend's home is normal and polite, though school and work start on the dot in both. **Who acts:** time, arriving, school · **What happens:** mean, arrive, be, start · **To what, where:** Brazil, dot 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, school), 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:2 # text = In Germany on time often means a few minutes early; in Brazil, arriving a bit late to a party at a friend's home is normal and polite, though school and work start on the dot in both. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Germany Germany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 arriving arrive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 18 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 36 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:obl|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | time | | | | | in Germany; early, often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in germany=Attribute | | 2 | **arrive** | gerund | | | | Brazil | | to a party at a friend's home; late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is** | present | arriving | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | arriving *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **start** | present | school and work | | | the dot | | in both | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/1/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)