---
title: Waiting, missing someone or wanting a cuppa makes time feel longer t… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics
description: Waiting, missing someone or wanting a cuppa makes time feel longer than the clock says. Who acts: Waiting, time, clock. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / 3

# How long since? Counting back, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Waiting, missing someone or wanting a cuppa makes time feel longer than the clock says.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Waiting, time, clock · **What happens:** wait, missing, want, make, feel, say · **To what, where:** someone, cuppa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (Waiting, time, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:3
# text = Waiting, missing someone or wanting a cuppa makes time feel longer than the clock says.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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): no change
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	missing	missing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cuppa	cuppa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **missing** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | gerund |  | a cuppa |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cuppa=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | Waiting |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | time |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:3`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [How long since? Counting back, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/2/)
- next →: [How long since? Counting back, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/4/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)