Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 16

A decade is ten years: «the 1960s» means 1960 to 1969, the decade of Gagarin's flight in 1961 and the Moon landing in 1969.

Who acts: decade, 1960s · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: ten years, 1960

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 (decade, 1960s), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 decade	det
2	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 means	parataxis
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 1960s	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1960s	det
9	1960s	1960s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	11 means	nsubj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 1960s	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 means	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 1969	case
14	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 1960	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 decade	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 decade	det
17	decade	decade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 1960	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 flight	case
19	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 flight	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Gagarin	case
21	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 decade	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1961	case
23	1961	1961	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 flight	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 landing	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 landing	det
26	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 landing	compound
27	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flight	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 1969	case
29	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 landing	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 years	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	is a	present	a decade	ten years					tree rules
2	mean	present	the 1960s	1960				to 1969	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 1960=Theme to 1969=Attribute

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:16.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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