How long since? Counting back, sentence 3
Waiting, missing someone or wanting a cuppa makes time feel longer than the clock says.
Who acts: Waiting, time, clock · What happens: wait, missing, want, make, feel, say · To what, where: someone, cuppa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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, clock), 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
| 3 | missing | missing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Waiting | conj |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 missing | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 wanting | cc |
| 6 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 missing | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cuppa | det |
| 8 | cuppa | cuppa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wanting | obj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 feel | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 says | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clock | det |
| 15 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 longer | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | missing | gerund | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want | gerund | a cuppa | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cuppa=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | Waiting | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | time | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | the clock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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, 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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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