Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 20
Your birthday is the date you were born, coming round again each year: Tia, born on 12 September 2016, turned 10 on 12 September 2026.
Who acts: birthday, date, Tia · What happens: be, bear, come round, turn · To what, where: date, you, Tia, 12, 10
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 (birthday, date, Tia), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 2 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 date | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 date | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 date | det |
| 5 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | aux:pass |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 date | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 date | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 year | det |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tia | punct |
| 16 | Tia | Tia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 born | punct |
| 18 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Tia | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 12 | case |
| 20 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 born | obl |
| 21 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | 2016 | 2016 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 12 | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 date | punct |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 turned | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 12 | case |
| 27 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 turned | obl |
| 28 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 12 | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 12 | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 date | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your birthday | the date | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | the date not said here | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come round | gerund | Your birthday not said here | again; year | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | bear | participle | Tia not said here | 12 September | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | Tia | 10 | 12 September | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 10=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:20.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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