Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 4
BC years count down towards year 1, so the bigger BC number is the earlier year: 753 BC comes before 44 BC.
Who acts: BC years, bigger BC number, earlier year · What happens: count down, be, come · To what, where: earlier year, 44
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, bigger BC number, earlier year), 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 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 count | compound:prt |
| 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 | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 comes | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 number | amod |
| 12 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 number | compound |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 year | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 year | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 16 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 year | amod |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 753 | punct |
| 19 | 753 | 753 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 20 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 753 | flat |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 count | advcl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 44 | case |
| 23 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 comes | obl |
| 24 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 44 | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count down | present | BC years | year | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the bigger BC number | the earlier year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the earlier year | 44 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before 44=Location |
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:4.
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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