Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 1
Maya plays Minecraft "for 10 minutes", yet the clock says 4:00 to 5:10, which is 70 minutes.
Who acts: Maya, clock · What happens: play, say, be · To what, where: Minecraft, 4:00, 5:10, 70 minutes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Maya, 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 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Minecraft | Minecraft | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Minecraft | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 minutes | case |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 plays | obl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 minutes | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clock | det |
| 12 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plays | conj |
| 14 | 4:00 | 4:00 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 5:10 | case |
| 16 | 5:10 | 5:10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 4:00 | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 minutes | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 minutes | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 minutes | cop |
| 20 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 minutes | nummod |
| 21 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 4:00 | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Maya | Minecraft | minute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minecraft=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the clock | 4:00 | 5:10 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 4:00=Topic to 5:10=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | 70 minutes | tree rules |
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:1.
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): R8-pos-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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