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title: When you are having fun and concentrating hard, you stop noticing ti… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are having fun and concentrating hard, you stop noticing time, so it seems to fly. Who acts: you, it. 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 2

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When you are having fun and concentrating hard, you stop noticing time, so it seems to fly.

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**Who acts:** you, it · **What happens:** have, concentrate, stop, notice, seem, fly · **To what, where:** fun

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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 (you, it), 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:2
# text = When you are having fun and concentrating hard, you stop noticing time, so it seems to fly.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	_	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	concentrating	concentrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · progressive | you | fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
| 2 | **concentrate** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **seem** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **fly** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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