Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 4
Some days are older than the countries themselves.
Who acts: days · What happens: be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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 (days), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 older | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 older | cop |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 countries | det |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 older | obl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 countries | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 older | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some days | than the countries countries; old 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:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:4.
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): 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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