BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 14
To find how many years lie between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away 1.
Who acts: you, many years · What happens: find, lie, add, take away · To what, where: two numbers, 1 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, many years), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 add | advcl |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | ccomp |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 9 | BC | BC | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | compound |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lie | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 year | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 year | compound |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 add | punct |
| 16 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 numbers | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 numbers | nummod |
| 19 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 add | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 add | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | many years | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the two numbers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | you not said here | 1 | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1=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:14.
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): R8-pos-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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