Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 23

At age 10 one year is a tenth of your life so far, while at 70 it is a seventieth; this is one idea for why years feel faster as people age, but scientists are not sure.

Who acts: one year, life, this, years, people, scientists · What happens: be, feel, age, not be · To what, where: tenth, age, seventieth, 70, one idea

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 (one year, life, this, years), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 age	case
2	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tenth	obl
3	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 age	flat
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 year	nummod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tenth	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tenth	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tenth	det
8	tenth	tenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 idea	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tenth	nmod
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 life	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seventieth	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 seventieth	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 70	case
17	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 seventieth	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seventieth	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seventieth	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 seventieth	det
21	seventieth	seventieth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tenth	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 idea	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 idea	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 idea	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 idea	nummod
26	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 feel	mark
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 feel	advmod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 feel	nsubj
30	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 idea	advcl
31	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 feel	xcomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 age	mark
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 age	nsubj
34	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 feel	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
37	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sure	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 sure	cop
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 sure	advmod
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 idea	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tenth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one year	a tenth and a seventieth		at age	of your life	tree rules
2	is a	present	life	a seventieth	70			tree rules
3	is a	present	this	one idea				tree rules
4	feel	present	years				fast property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	age	present	people					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	not is	present	scientists				sure property	tree rules

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:23.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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