--- title: A 3-hour car ride is 180 minutes, so asking "are we there yet?" ever… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: A 3-hour car ride is 180 minutes, so asking "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes means asking 18 times. Who acts: hour car ride, we, 10 minutes. 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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 (hour car ride, we, 10 minutes), 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:25 # text = A 3-hour car ride is 180 minutes, so asking "are we there yet?" every 10 minutes means asking 18 times. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 17 yet yet ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 ccomp _ _ 25 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a hour car ride | 180 minutes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | yet | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | every 10 minutes | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:25`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/24/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)