Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 22
Scientists study the feeling of time with experiments that ask people to guess how long something took.
Who acts: Scientists, experiments, something · What happens: study, ask, guess, take · To what, where: feeling, people · 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 (Scientists, experiments, something), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 study | nsubj |
| 2 | study | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feeling | det |
| 4 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 study | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 experiments | case |
| 8 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feeling | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 experiments | acl:relcl |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 guess | mark |
| 13 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 took | advmod |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 guess | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 study | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | present | Scientists | the feeling of time | with experiments | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | experiments | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | guess not said to happen | to-infinitive | experiments not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | something | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:22.
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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