--- title: This clock's knackered!" ("knackered" means broken or worn out). — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: This clock's knackered!" ("knackered" means broken or worn out). Who acts: clock. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 5 This clock's knackered!" ("knackered" means broken or worn out). **Who acts:** clock · **What happens:** knacker, mean, break, wear out · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (clock), 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:5 # text = This clock's knackered!" ("knackered" means broken or worn out). # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod:poss 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 knackered knacker VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 knackered knacker VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 nsubj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knacker** | participle | this clock | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **knacker** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **wear out** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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:5`. **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 ×1, 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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/4/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)