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title: Games have their own clocks: a Minecraft day and night lasts 20 real… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics
description: Games have their own clocks: a Minecraft day and night lasts 20 real minutes, so 2 real hours hold 6 Minecraft days. Who acts: Games, Minecraft day, 2 real hours. 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 
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# Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 13

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Games have their own clocks: a Minecraft day and night lasts 20 real minutes, so 2 real hours hold 6 Minecraft days.

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**Who acts:** Games, Minecraft day, 2 real hours · **What happens:** have, last, hold · **To what, where:** own clocks

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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 (Games, Minecraft day, 2 real hours), 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:13
# text = Games have their own clocks: a Minecraft day and night lasts 20 real minutes, so 2 real hours hold 6 Minecraft days.
# 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	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	Minecraft	Minecraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Games | Games's own clocks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |
| 2 | **last** | present | a Minecraft day and night |  |  |  | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | present | 2 real hours |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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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