--- title: "A watched pot never boils" is a saying meaning time feels slower wh… — "Five more minutes" and other waiting games · tree and pragmatics description: "A watched pot never boils" is a saying meaning time feels slower when you stare and wait. Who acts: time, you. A sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/19/) [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/) / ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/) / 19 # "Five more minutes" and other waiting games, sentence 19 "A watched pot never boils" is a saying meaning time feels slower when you stare and wait. **Who acts:** time, you · **What happens:** watch, be, mean, feel, stare, wait · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» 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 (time, 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:19 # text = "A watched pot never boils" is a saying meaning time feels slower when you stare and wait. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 boils boil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feel** | present | time | | | | | slow *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **stare** | present | you | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wait** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:19`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["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/) - next →: ["Five more minutes" and other waiting…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/109-five-more-minutes-and-waiting-games/)