Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 13
BC years count backwards towards year 1: Rome's legendary founding in 753 BC came 709 years before Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC.
Who acts: BC years, legendary founding, Rome · What happens: count, come, kill, found · To what, where: 44, Julius
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history 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 (BC years, legendary founding, Rome), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 years | compound |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 count | nsubj |
| 3 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 3 count | advmod |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 count | obl |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 year | flat |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 legendary | punct |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 founding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 11 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 founding | amod |
| 12 | founding | founding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 753 | case |
| 14 | 753 | 753 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 founding | obl |
| 15 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 753 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 count | parataxis |
| 17 | 709 | 709 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 killed | mark |
| 20 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Julius | flat |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux:pass |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 44 | case |
| 25 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 came | obl |
| 26 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 44 | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 count | punct |
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 | count | present | BC years | year | backwards property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | Rome's legendary founding | 44 BC | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 44=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | Julius | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | found | Rome | nom founding «act transitive»: poss=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, 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:history:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:13.
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.
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