BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 23
Kyiv's traditional founding date is AD 482, which makes it 1,544 years old in 2026; the date comes from old stories.
Who acts: traditional founding date, AD, date · What happens: be, make, come · To what, where: AD, human, old stories
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 (traditional founding date, AD, date), 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 | Kyiv | Kyiv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 date | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kyiv | case |
| 3 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 date | amod |
| 4 | founding | founding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 date | compound |
| 5 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 AD | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 AD | cop |
| 7 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | 482 | 482 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 AD | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 AD | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | 1,544 | 1,544 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 2026 | case |
| 17 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 old | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 date | det |
| 20 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 makes | parataxis |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stories | amod |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 comes | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | Kyiv's traditional founding date | AD | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | AD | human | old property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 3 | come | present | the date | old stories | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from story=Initial_Location |
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:23.
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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