Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 19
A coin stamped "25 BC" must be a fake, because people living then could not know that a man would be born 25 years later and years would be counted from him.
Who acts: coin, people · What happens: stamp, be, live, not know, bear, count · To what, where: coin, fake, man, years · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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 (coin, people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coin | det |
| 2 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fake | nsubj |
| 3 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 coin | acl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
| 5 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 BC | nummod |
| 6 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 coin | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamped | punct |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fake | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fake | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fake | det |
| 11 | fake | fake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 counted | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 know | nsubj |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 people | acl |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 living | advmod |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fake | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 born | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 born | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 born | aux:pass |
| 25 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 know | ccomp |
| 26 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 later | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 born | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 counted | cc |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 counted | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 counted | aux:pass |
| 33 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 born | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 counted | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fake | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | participle | a coin not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | a coin | a fake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | people not said here | then | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not know | could | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | bear | would · passive | a man | late property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | count | would · passive | years | from man | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:19.
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 ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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