Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 5
This clock's knackered!" ("knackered" means broken or worn out).
Who acts: clock · What happens: knacker, mean, break, wear out · 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 (clock), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knackered | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 clock | case |
| 4 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 knackered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knackered | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 knackered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knackered | punct |
| 9 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knackered | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knackered | parataxis |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 means | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 worn | cc |
| 14 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 broken | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 worn | compound:prt |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knackered | 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 | knacker | participle | this clock | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | knacker | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | wear out in a quote | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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:5.
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 ×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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