How long since? Counting back, sentence 9
To find how long since something happened, count up from the earlier time to now.
Who acts: you, something · What happens: find, happen, count up
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 (you, something), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 count | advcl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 find | advmod |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 happened | mark |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 count | punct |
| 9 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 count | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 count | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 now | case |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 count | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | long property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | count up | imperative | you not said here | time | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:9.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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