--- title: If 30 children each kept a teacher waiting 5 minutes, she would lose… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: If 30 children each kept a teacher waiting 5 minutes, she would lose 150 minutes. Who acts: 30 children, teacher. 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 eve --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 21 If 30 children each kept a teacher waiting 5 minutes, she would lose 150 minutes. **Who acts:** 30 children, teacher · **What happens:** keep, wait, lose · **To what, where:** teacher 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 (30 children, teacher), 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:21 # text = If 30 children each kept a teacher waiting 5 minutes, she would lose 150 minutes. # 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:mark 2 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ _ 9 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | each 30 children | a teacher | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | a teacher *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | would | teacher | | | | minute | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:21`. **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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/20/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)