Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 4
In maths Josh stares at the clock: "It's moved one minute in, like, an hour.
Who acts: Josh · What happens: stare, move · To what, where: maths, fun · 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 (Josh), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 maths | case |
| 2 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stares | obl |
| 3 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | nsubj |
| 4 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 clock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clock | det |
| 7 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux:pass |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stares | ccomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 minute | nummod |
| 14 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 17 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 stares | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hour | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stares | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stares | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | Josh | maths | hour | at the clock | tree rules | ||
| 2 | move in a quote | present · passive | fun | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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:4.
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 ×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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