Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 2
When you are having fun and concentrating hard, you stop noticing time, so it seems to fly.
Who acts: you, it · What happens: have, concentrate, stop, notice, seem, fly · To what, where: fun
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 (you, it), 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 | _ | 4 having | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 having | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | aux |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stop | advcl |
| 5 | fun | fun | NOUN | _ | 4 having | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 concentrating | cc |
| 7 | concentrating | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 having | conj |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 concentrating | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stop | xcomp |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 seems | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seems | nsubj |
| 17 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stop | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fly | mark |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seems | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · progressive | you | fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | concentrate | gerund | you not said here | hard property | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | notice | gerund | you not said here | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | seem | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | fly | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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:2.
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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