"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 16
Old photos were taken on film, and their colours fade over time, often going orange or yellow.
Who acts: colours · What happens: take, fade, go · To what, where: Old photos, film
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 (colours), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 photos | amod |
| 2 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 film | case |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fade | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 colours | nmod:poss |
| 10 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fade | nsubj |
| 11 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fade | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 going | advmod |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fade | advcl |
| 17 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 going | xcomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 yellow | cc |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 orange | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | 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 | take | past · passive | Old photos | film | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on film=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fade | present | photos's colours | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | photos's colours not said here | often, orange property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:16.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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