"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 10
1990 was 36 years before 2026; the Middle Ages, in Europe roughly the years 500 to 1500, ended about 500 years ago.
Who acts: 1990, Middle Ages · What happens: be, end · To what, where: 36 years
This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 (1990, Middle Ages), 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 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | cop |
| 3 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 2026 | case |
| 6 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ages | det |
| 9 | Middle | Middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Ages | amod |
| 10 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 ended | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ages | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Europe | case |
| 13 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ages | nmod:desc |
| 14 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 16 years | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 years | det |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Ages | appos |
| 17 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Ages | flat |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 1500 | case |
| 19 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 500 | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ages | punct |
| 21 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | parataxis |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 500 | advmod |
| 23 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 ended | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ended | 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 | past | 1990 | 36 years | before 2026 | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | past | the Middle Ages in Europe | ago property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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