"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 18
The first Moon landing was on 20 July 1969; someone who was 7 then was born in about 1962 and is about 64 in 2026.
What happens: be, bear · To what, where: 20, 7, someone, 1962, 64, 2026
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: 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 | 4 landing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 landing | amod |
| 3 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 landing | compound |
| 4 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 born | parataxis |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 20 | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 20 | case |
| 7 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 landing | nmod |
| 8 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 1969 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | 1969 | 1969 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 20 | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 someone | punct |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 7 | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 7 | cop |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 someone | acl:relcl |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 born | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1962 | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 1962 | advmod |
| 20 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 born | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 64 | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 64 | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 64 | advmod |
| 24 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 1962 | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 2026 | case |
| 26 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 64 | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | 20 | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | 7 | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | someone | 1962 | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | present | 64 | 2026 | about property | tree rules |
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:18.
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. 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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