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title: As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's t… — Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all tog… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's tide comes in about every 12 and a half hours whether you're ready or not. Who acts: old saying, tide, you, sea. A sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» of the world course of Mova's primary s
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# Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 10

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As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's tide comes in about every 12 and a half hours whether you're ready or not.

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**Who acts:** old saying, tide, you, sea · **What happens:** go, come in, be, tide

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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 (old saying, tide, you, sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:10
# text = As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's tide comes in about every 12 and a half hours whether you're ready or not.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
10	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=33:cc
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **go** | present | the old saying |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come in** | present | the sea's tide |  |  |  | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tide** |  | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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