Whose turn is it?, sentence 17
Time feels shorter when you are playing and longer when you are waiting.
Who acts: Time, you · What happens: feel, play, wait
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 feels | xcomp |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 playing | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 playing | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 playing | aux |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shorter | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longer | cc |
| 9 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 shorter | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 waiting | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 waiting | aux |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 longer | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Time | short property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | play | present · progressive | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | present · progressive | you | vn exist-47.1 «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, 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:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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.
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