Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 16
When people enjoy something and concentrate hard, time seems to pass quickly: "time flies when you're having fun".
Who acts: people, time, you · What happens: enjoy, concentrate, seem, pass, fly, have · To what, where: something, fun · 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 (people, time, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 enjoy | mark |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 enjoy | nsubj |
| 3 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seems | advcl |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 enjoy | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 concentrate | cc |
| 6 | concentrate | concentrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enjoy | conj |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 6 concentrate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 enjoy | punct |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seems | nsubj |
| 10 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pass | mark |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seems | xcomp |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 pass | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 flies | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 flies | punct |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flies | nsubj |
| 17 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seems | parataxis |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 having | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 having | nsubj |
| 20 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 having | aux |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 flies | advcl |
| 22 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 flies | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present | people | something | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | concentrate | present | people not said here | hard property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | time | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | time not said here | quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | present | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present · progressive | you | fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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:16.
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 ×2, 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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