Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 0
Clocks tick at the same speed whatever you are doing, but your feeling of time does not.
Who acts: Clocks, you, feeling · What happens: tick, do, not do · To what, where: same speed, whatever
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why time flies and why it drags» 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 (Clocks, you, feeling), 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 | Clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tick | nsubj |
| 2 | tick | tick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 speed | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 speed | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speed | amod |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tick | obl |
| 7 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 doing | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 doing | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doing | aux |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 speed | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 does | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 does | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feeling | nmod |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tick | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 does | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tick | present | Clocks | the same speed | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | you | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not do | present | your feeling of time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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