Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 3
That's why a picky grandad says the new millennium really began in 2001, not at the huge parties of 2000.
Who acts: That, picky grandad, new millennium · What happens: be, say, begin · To what, where: 2001 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, picky grandad, new millennium), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 grandad | det |
| 5 | picky | picky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grandad | amod |
| 6 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 millennium | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 millennium | amod |
| 10 | millennium | millennium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2001 | case |
| 14 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 began | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 parties | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 parties | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 parties | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 parties | det |
| 19 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parties | amod |
| 20 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 millennium | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 2000 | case |
| 22 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 parties | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a picky grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the new millennium at the huge parties of 2000 | 2001 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:3.
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. 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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