Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together, sentence 10
As the old saying goes, "time and tide wait for no man": the sea's tide comes in about every 12 and a half hours whether you're ready or not.
Who acts: old saying, tide, you, sea · What happens: go, come in, be, tide
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen time, wasted time, and putting it all together» 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 (old saying, tide, you, sea), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 goes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saying | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saying | amod |
| 4 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 time | cc |
| 10 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | conj |
| 11 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tide | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 20 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 comes | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 12 | advmod |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 12 | det |
| 25 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 hours | nummod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hours | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 half | det |
| 28 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 hours | compound |
| 29 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 comes | obl |
| 30 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 ready | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 ready | nsubj |
| 32 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 ready | cop |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 comes | advcl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 not | cc |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 ready | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the old saying | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in | present | the sea's tide | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tide | the sea | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=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:130-screen-time-and-putting-it-together.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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