--- title: Neither is wrong; it's worth learning how a place uses the clock bef… — Being on time around the world, waiting your tur… · tree and pragmatics description: Neither is wrong; it's worth learning how a place uses the clock before judging it. Who acts: Neither, learning, place. 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 --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 4 Neither is wrong; it's worth learning how a place uses the clock before judging it. **Who acts:** Neither, learning, place · **What happens:** be, learn, use, judge · **To what, where:** clock · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Neither, learning, place), 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:4 # text = Neither is wrong; it's worth learning how a place uses the clock before judging it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Neither neither PRON DT PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 judging judge VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Neither | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | learning | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **use** | present | a place | the clock | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 5 | **judge** | gerund | a place *not said here* | clock | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent it=Value | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/3/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)