"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 17

2 minutes is 120 seconds; a watched toaster only seems slow because you are staring at it.

Who acts: 2 minutes, watched toaster, you · What happens: be, watch, seem, stare · To what, where: 120 seconds

This is a sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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 (2 minutes, watched toaster, 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	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seconds	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seconds	cop
4	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 seconds	nummod
5	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toaster	det
8	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 toaster	amod
9	toaster	toaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seems	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 seems	advmod
11	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seconds	parataxis
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seems	xcomp
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 staring	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 staring	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 staring	aux
16	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 seems	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 staring	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seconds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	2 minutes	120 seconds		tree rules
2	watch	participle				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	seem	present	a watched toaster		slow property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	stare	present · progressive	you		at toaster	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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:world:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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