Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 6
The clock is fine; his brain is counting every tick.
Who acts: clock, brain · What happens: be, count · To what, where: tick
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, brain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 counting | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counting | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 counting | aux |
| 9 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 tick | det |
| 11 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counting | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the clock | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | present · progressive | Josh's brain | every tick | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=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:6.
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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