Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 13

Games have their own clocks: a Minecraft day and night lasts 20 real minutes, so 2 real hours hold 6 Minecraft days.

Who acts: Games, Minecraft day, 2 real hours · What happens: have, last, hold · To what, where: own clocks

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 (Games, Minecraft day, 2 real hours), 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	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clocks	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clocks	amod
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lasts	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lasts	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 night	cc
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	conj
12	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
13	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 minutes	nummod
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 minutes	amod
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lasts	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 hold	advmod
18	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 hours	nummod
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hours	amod
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hold	nsubj
21	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lasts	conj
22	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
23	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 days	compound
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hold	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	Games	Games's own clocks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
2	last	present	a Minecraft day and night		minute	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	hold	present	2 real hours		day	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:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:13.

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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