--- title: BC years count backwards towards year 1: Rome's legendary founding i… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics description: BC years count backwards towards year 1: Rome's legendary founding in 753 BC came 709 years before Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC. Who acts: BC years, legendary founding, Rome. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/) / 13 # Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 13 BC years count backwards towards year 1: Rome's legendary founding in 753 BC came 709 years before Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC. **Who acts:** BC years, legendary founding, Rome · **What happens:** count, come, kill, found · **To what, where:** 44, Julius This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history 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 (BC years, legendary founding, Rome), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:13 # text = BC years count backwards towards year 1: Rome's legendary founding in 753 BC came 709 years before Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson # annotation = 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 1 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 legendary legendary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 founding founding NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 753 753 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 15 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 709 709 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 Julius Julius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 Caesar Caesar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 44 44 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 26 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | BC years | | | | year | backwards *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | past | Rome's legendary founding | | | 44 BC | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 44=Location | | 3 | **kill** | past · passive | | Julius | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **found** | | Rome | | | | | | nom founding «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:085-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first.lesson:13`. **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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