Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 24
New experiences make lots of new memories, and looking back, a time full of new memories feels longer.
Who acts: New experiences, time · What happens: make, look back, feel · To what, where: lots
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 (New experiences, time), 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 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 experiences | amod |
| 2 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 memories | case |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 memories | amod |
| 7 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lots | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 make | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feels | nsubj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 memories | case |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 memories | amod |
| 18 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| 19 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 feels | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | present | New experiences | lots of new memories | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | ||||
| 2 | look back | gerund | New experiences not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | a time | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:24.
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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