Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 26
From one Christmas to the next is 365 days, or 366 in a leap year, even if it feels quicker every year.
Who acts: one, ride · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: 365 days
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, ride), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nsubj |
| 3 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 next | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 next | det |
| 6 | next | next | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 days | cop |
| 8 | 365 | 365 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 366 | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 366 | cc |
| 12 | 366 | 366 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 days | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 15 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 year | compound |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 366 | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feels | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 feels | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 feels | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feels | nsubj |
| 21 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 days | advcl |
| 22 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 feels | xcomp |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feels | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | one Christmas to the next | 365 days | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel a condition, not said to happen | present | ride | year | quick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:26.
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): R5-strong ×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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