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title: Maya plays Minecraft "for 10 minutes", yet the clock says 4:00 to 5:… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya plays Minecraft "for 10 minutes", yet the clock says 4:00 to 5:10, which is 70 minutes. Who acts: Maya, clock. A sentence of the lesson «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 1

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Maya plays Minecraft "for 10 minutes", yet the clock says 4:00 to 5:10, which is 70 minutes.

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**Who acts:** Maya, clock · **What happens:** play, say, be · **To what, where:** Minecraft, 4:00, 5:10, 70 minutes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why time flies and why it drags» 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 (Maya, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:1
# text = Maya plays Minecraft "for 10 minutes", yet the clock says 4:00 to 5:10, which is 70 minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	4:00	4:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	5:10	5:10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Maya | Minecraft |  |  | minute |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minecraft=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the clock | 4:00 | 5:10 |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 4:00=Topic to 5:10=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 70 minutes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:1`.

**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): 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.

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

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