Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 12

Nobody knows the full reason, but one idea is that at 10 a year is one tenth of your whole life, while at 70 it is only one seventieth; another is that children have lots of new things to remember, and new memories make a year feel bigger.

Who acts: Nobody, year, life, children, new memories · What happens: know, be, remember, make, feel · To what, where: full reason, 10, one tenth, one seventieth, 70 · 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 (Nobody, year, life, children), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 idea	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 idea	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 idea	nummod
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reason	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 10	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 10	mark
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 10	case
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 tenth	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tenth	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tenth	cop
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 tenth	nummod
18	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 idea	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 life	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tenth	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 70	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 70	mark
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 70	case
26	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 seventieth	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seventieth	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 seventieth	cop
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 seventieth	advmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 seventieth	nummod
31	seventieth	seventieth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tenth	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 have	det
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 have	cop
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 have	mark
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	nsubj
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 idea	conj
38	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 things	case
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 lots	nmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 remember	mark
43	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 things	acl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 make	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 make	cc
46	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 memories	amod
47	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 make	nsubj
48	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 have	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 year	det
50	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 feel	nsubj
51	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 make	xcomp
52	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 feel	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody	the full reason but one idea			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
2	is	present			10		tree rules
3	is a	present	a year	one tenth and one seventieth		of your whole life	tree rules
4	is a	present	life	one seventieth	70		tree rules
5	is	present	children			have property	tree rules
6	remember	to-infinitive	children not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	make	present	new memories				tree rules
8	feel	infinitive	a year			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:12.

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. 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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