BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 1
Years after it are AD ("Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of the Lord"), also written CE; years before it are BC ("before Christ"), also written BCE.
Who acts: Years, Christ · What happens: be, write · To what, where: AD, BC, BCE
This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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 (Years, Christ), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 AD | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 AD | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 AD | cop |
| 5 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Domini | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Anno | punct |
| 8 | Anno | Anno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Domini | compound |
| 9 | Domini | Domini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 AD | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Domini | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Latin | punct |
| 12 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Domini | flat |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 " | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Domini | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 " | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lord | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lord | det |
| 20 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 year | nmod |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lord | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lord | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 CE | punct |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 written | advmod |
| 25 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 CE | amod |
| 26 | CE | ce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Lord | appos |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 years | punct |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Years | conj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 years | nmod |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 BC | cop |
| 32 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 AD | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Christ | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Christ | punct |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 Christ | case |
| 36 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 BC | appos |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Christ | punct |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Christ | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 written | punct |
| 40 | also | also | ADV | _ | 41 written | advmod |
| 41 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 Christ | acl:relcl |
| 42 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 written | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 AD | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Years and years before point | AD and BC | after point | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Years and years before point not said here | BC | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write | participle | Christ not said here | BCE | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bce=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:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:1.
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): 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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