Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 25

A 3-hour car ride is 180 minutes, so asking "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes means asking 18 times.

Who acts: hour car ride, we, 10 minutes · What happens: be, ask, mean · To what, where: 180 minutes · 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 (hour car ride, we, 10 minutes), 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	6 ride	det
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 hour	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	compound
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ride	compound
6	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 minutes	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 minutes	cop
8	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 minutes	nummod
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 means	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asking	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 asking	advmod
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 minutes	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 there	nsubj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 asking	ccomp
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 there	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 minutes	det
21	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 minutes	nummod
22	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 means	ccomp
25	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 times	nummod
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 asking	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 minutes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a hour car ride	180 minutes			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	we		yet	there property	tree rules
4	mean	present	every 10 minutes				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	gerund			time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:25.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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