"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 9

Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent on 24 August 1991, and a grandad who watched the Moon landing on TV at 7, in 1969, was born in about 1962.

Who acts: Family dates, Ukraine, grandad · What happens: line up, become, watch, bear · To what, where: Moon landing, TV, grandad, 1962

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 (Family dates, Ukraine, grandad), 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	Family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dates	compound
2	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 line	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 line	advmod
4	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 line	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 history	case
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 line	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
9	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 line	parataxis
11	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 24	case
13	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 independent	obl
14	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 1991	nmod:unmarked
15	1991	1991	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 24	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 born	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 born	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grandad	det
19	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 born	nsubj:pass
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 watched	nsubj
21	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grandad	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 landing	det
23	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 landing	compound
24	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watched	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 TV	case
26	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 landing	nmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 7	case
28	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 watched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 1969	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 1969	case
31	1969	1969	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 watched	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 1969	punct
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 born	aux:pass
34	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 1962	case
36	about	about	ADV	_	37 1962	advmod
37	1962	1962	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 born	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 line	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	line up	present	Family dates			with history; often property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with history=Theme
2	become	past	Ukraine			independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	watch	past	a grandad	the Moon landing	TV	at 7; in 1969	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme
4	bear	past · passive		a grandad	1962		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:9.

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): R8-pos-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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