"Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 19
"A watched pot never boils" is a saying meaning time feels slower when you stare and wait.
Who acts: time, you · What happens: watch, be, mean, feel, stare, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pot | amod |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 boils | advmod |
| 6 | boils | boil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pot | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 boils | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saying | det |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saying | acl |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feels | nsubj |
| 13 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 meaning | ccomp |
| 14 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 feels | xcomp |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stare | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 stare | nsubj |
| 17 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 feels | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wait | cc |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stare | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | participle | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | present | say property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | feel | present | time | slow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stare | present | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wait | present | you not said here | 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:world:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
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