--- title: Worry and fear can make a short time feel long; afterwards a frighte… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: Worry and fear can make a short time feel long; afterwards a frightening moment often seems to have lasted longer than it did. Who acts: Worry, frightening moment. 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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 (Worry, frightening moment), 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:21 # text = Worry and fear can make a short time feel long; afterwards a frightening moment often seems to have lasted longer than it did. # 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 Worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 12 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux _ _ 20 lasted last VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 xcomp _ _ 21 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **make** | can | Worry and fear | | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | infinitive | Worry and fear *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **seem** | present | a frightening moment | | | | | afterwards, often *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **last** | to-infinitive · perfect | a frightening moment *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:21`. **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/). - ← previous: [Why time flies and why it drags, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/20/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)