Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 15
A clock runs at the same speed all the time; it is our feeling of time that speeds up or slows down.
Who acts: clock, speed, feeling · What happens: run, be, speed up, slow down · To what, where: same speed, feeling
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 (clock, speed, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 speed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 speed | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speed | amod |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeling | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 feeling | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feeling | cop |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runs | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feeling | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 speeds | nsubj |
| 19 | speeds | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 speeds | compound:prt |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 slows | cc |
| 22 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 speeds | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 slows | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | a clock | the same speed | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | present | speed | our feeling | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speed up | present | our feeling | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | slow down | present | our feeling not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:15.
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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