Ages: years ago, years from now, sentence 1
The difference between two ages never changes: if Ben is 4 years older than Mia now, he is 4 years older in every year.
Who acts: difference, Ben · What happens: not change, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ages: years ago, years from now» of the lessons 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 (difference, Ben), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 difference | det |
| 2 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 ages | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ages | nummod |
| 5 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 difference | nmod |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 changes | advmod |
| 7 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 changes | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 older | mark |
| 10 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 older | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 older | cop |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 older | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 changes | advcl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Mia | case |
| 16 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 older | obl |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 older | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 older | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 older | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 older | cop |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 older | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 older | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 older | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present | the difference between two ages | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Ben | year | than Mia; old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Ben | now; year | old property | tree rules |
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:lessons:113-ages.lesson:1.
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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