"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 7
Old things also look old because they have aged: photos on film fade and go orange.
Who acts: Old things, things, photos · What happens: look, age, fade, go
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 (Old things, things, photos), 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 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 aged | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 aged | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 aged | aux |
| 9 | aged | age | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 look | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 photos | punct |
| 11 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fade | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 film | case |
| 13 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 photos | nmod |
| 14 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 aged | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fade | conj |
| 17 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Old things | old property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | age | present · perfect | things = thing | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fade | present | photos on film | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | present | photos on film not said here | 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:7.
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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