--- title: Words people use: "ages" means a long time, "in your dreams" means n… — Alarms, stopwatches and how long a second is · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "ages" means a long time, "in your dreams" means no way, "mid" means just average, nothing special, "no cap" means "no lie" and "I'm dead" means "that's so funny". Who acts: people, ages, cap, Dentists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, ages, cap, Dentists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:20 # text = Words people use: "ages" means a long time, "in your dreams" means no way, "mid" means just average, nothing special, "no cap" means "no lie" and "I'm dead" means "that's so funny". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×7, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 23 mid mid X AFX _ 25 mark _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 parataxis _ _ 30 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 36 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct 47 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 parataxis _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 49 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 52 nsubj _ _ 50 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 ccomp _ _ 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | ages | | | | time | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | no way | | | | in your dreams | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot way=Theme in dream=Attribute | | 4 | **mean** | present | | average | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent average=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | no cap | no lie | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Dentists *= dentist* | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **dream** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:105-alarms-stopwatches-how-long-a-second-is.lesson:20`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×7, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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