Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 16
A generation is about 25 to 30 years, so 4 generations cover about a century.
Who acts: generation, 4 generations · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: 25
This is a sentence of the lesson «Decades, centuries and millennia» 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 (generation, 4 generations), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 generation | det |
| 2 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 25 | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 25 | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 25 | advmod |
| 5 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 30 | case |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 25 | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cover | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 cover | advmod |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 generations | nummod |
| 12 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 25 | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 century | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 century | det |
| 16 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cover | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 25 | 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 | a generation | 25 | year | about property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cover | present | 4 generations | century | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:124-decades-centuries-millennia.lesson:16.
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, 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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