--- title: When you are bored or worried you keep noticing every second, so tim… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: When you are bored or worried you keep noticing every second, so time seems to drag. Who acts: you, time. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Why time flies and why it drags](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/) / 3 # Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 3 When you are bored or worried you keep noticing every second, so time seems to drag. **Who acts:** you, time · **What happens:** be, keep, notice, seem, drag · **To what, where:** second 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, time), 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:3 # text = When you are bored or worried you keep noticing every second, so time seems to drag. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 cop _ _ 4 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 xcomp _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 11 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **notice** | gerund | you *not said here* | every second | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer second=Stimulus | | 5 | **seem** | present | time | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **drag** | to-infinitive | time *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/2/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)