--- title: Nobody knows the full reason, but one idea is that at 10 a year is o… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody knows the full reason, but one idea is that at 10 a year is one tenth of your whole life, while at 70 it is only one seventieth; another is that children have lots of new things to remember, and new memories make a year feel bigger. Who acts: Nobody, year, life, children. 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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 (Nobody, year, life, children), 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:12 # text = Nobody knows the full reason, but one idea is that at 10 a year is one tenth of your whole life, while at 70 it is only one seventieth; another is that children have lots of new things to remember, and new memories make a year feel bigger. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 seventieth seventieth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 52 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 51 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:amod 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Nobody | the full reason but one idea | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | 10 | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a year | one tenth and one seventieth | | | | of your whole life | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | life | one seventieth | | 70 | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | children | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **remember** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** | present | new memories | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **feel** | infinitive | a year | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:12`. **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. **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: [Why time flies and why it drags, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/11/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)