Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 21
Worry and fear can make a short time feel long; afterwards a frightening moment often seems to have lasted longer than it did.
Who acts: Worry, frightening moment · What happens: make, feel, seem, last
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 (Worry, frightening moment), 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 | Worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fear | cc |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Worry | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 seems | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 seems | advmod |
| 17 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lasted | mark |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lasted | aux |
| 20 | lasted | last | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 seems | xcomp |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 lasted | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 longer | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | 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 | make | can | Worry and fear | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | Worry and fear not said here | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seem | present | a frightening moment | afterwards, often property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | last | to-infinitive · perfect | a frightening moment not said here | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:21.
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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