Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 19
To find a birth year, take the age from the year of that birthday: 2026 − 80 = 1946.
Who acts: you · What happens: find, take · To what, where: age
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 4 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | compound |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 age | det |
| 9 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 birthday | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 birthday | det |
| 15 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 year | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 2026 | punct |
| 17 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 birthday | appos |
| 18 | − | − | SYM | _ | 19 80 | case |
| 19 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 2026 | nmod |
| 20 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 1946 | case |
| 21 | 1946 | 1946 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 2026 | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | 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 | year | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | the age | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=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:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:19.
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. 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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