Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 17
When people are bored or keep checking the clock, time seems to drag.
Who acts: people, time · What happens: be, keep, check, seem, drag · To what, where: clock
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), 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 | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 bored | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bored | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | cop |
| 4 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seems | advcl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 keep | cc |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bored | conj |
| 7 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clock | det |
| 9 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 checking | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seems | punct |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seems | nsubj |
| 12 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drag | mark |
| 14 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seems | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | people | bored property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | check | gerund | people not said here | the clock | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | time | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | drag | to-infinitive | time not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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