Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 8
Turn it round to find a birth year: Grandma turning 80 in 2026 was born in 2026 − 80 = 1946.
Who acts: you, Grandma · What happens: turn round, find, turn, bear · To what, where: age, 80, Grandma, 2026
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, Grandma), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Turn | obj |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 1 Turn | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Turn | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 year | compound |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Grandma | punct |
| 10 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Grandma | acl |
| 12 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 turning | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2026 | case |
| 14 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2026 | case |
| 18 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | − | − | SYM | Number=Sing | 18 2026 | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 2026 | nmod |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 1946 | case |
| 22 | 1946 | 1946 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 80 | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | imperative | you not said here | age | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | year | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Grandma not said here | 80 | in 2026 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent 80=Patient in 2026=Topic | |||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | Grandma | 2026 80 = 1946 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:8.
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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