Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 20
A strategy game that passes 50 years in 60 real minutes passes a bit less than one year every real minute.
Who acts: strategy game · What happens: pass
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 (strategy game), 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 | 3 game | det |
| 2 | strategy | strategy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 game | compound |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passes | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 game | acl:relcl |
| 6 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passes | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 minutes | case |
| 9 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 minutes | nummod |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minutes | amod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passes | obl |
| 12 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 less | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 passes | advcl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 year | nummod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 less | obl |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 minute | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 minute | amod |
| 21 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passes | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | a strategy game | minute; year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | present | a strategy game | minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:20.
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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