--- title: 2 minutes is 120 seconds; a watched toaster only seems slow because… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: 2 minutes is 120 seconds; a watched toaster only seems slow because you are staring at it. Who acts: 2 minutes, watched toaster, you. 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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 (2 minutes, watched toaster, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:17 # text = 2 minutes is 120 seconds; a watched toaster only seems slow because you are staring at it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:unmarked 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 toaster toaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | 2 minutes | 120 seconds | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | participle | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | present | a watched toaster | | | | | slow *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stare** | present · progressive | you | | | | | at toaster | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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](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:109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/16/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)