"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 11
The Game Boy came out in 1989, 37 years before 2026.
Who acts: Game Boy · What happens: come out · To what, where: 1989
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 (Game Boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | Game | game | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Boy | compound |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1989 | case |
| 7 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 9 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 2026 | case |
| 12 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the Game Boy | 1989 | year | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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:11.
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 ×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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