--- 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, and pushing in steals other people's minutes. Who acts: Waiting, time, pushing. 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 i --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines, sentence 6 Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same, and pushing in steals other people's minutes. **Who acts:** Waiting, time, pushing · **What happens:** wait, be, count, push in, steal · **To what, where:** turn, queue, same 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, pushing), 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:6 # text = Waiting your turn in a queue is fair because everyone's time counts the same, and pushing in steals other people's 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 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 , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 19 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 steals steal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | | 4 | **push in** | gerund | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **steal** | present | pushing | | | | minute | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/5/) - next →: [Being on time around the world, waitin…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/)