How long since? Counting back, sentence 0
"How long since?" asks how much time has passed from something that already happened until now.
Who acts: much time · What happens: ask, pass, happen · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (much time), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 asks | obl |
| 4 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 long | fixed |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 passed | aux |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asks | ccomp |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 passed | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 happened | advmod |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 something | acl:relcl |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 19 now | case |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 happened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect | much time | something | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from something=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:0.
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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