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title: A century is 100 years: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 1… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A century is 100 years: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 11th century is 1001 to 1100, the 19th century is 1801 to 1900, and the 21st century began on 1 January 2001. Who acts: century, 1st century, 19th century, 21st century. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and wh
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 15

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A century is 100 years: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 11th century is 1001 to 1100, the 19th century is 1801 to 1900, and the 21st century began on 1 January 2001.

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**Who acts:** century, 1st century, 19th century, 21st century · **What happens:** be, begin · **To what, where:** 100 years, years, 1001, 1801, 1

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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 (century, 1st century, 19th century, 21st century), 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:15
# text = A century is 100 years: the 1st century is the years 1 to 100, the 11th century is 1001 to 1100, the 19th century is 1801 to 1900, and the 21st century began on 1 January 2001.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	1st	1st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	11th	11th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	1001	1001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1100	1100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	1801	1801	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
40	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:unmarked	_	_
41	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nmod:unmarked	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a century | 100 years |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the 1st century | the years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 1001 |  |  |  | to 1100 | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the 19th century | 1801 |  |  |  | to 1900 | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the 21st century |  |  | 1  January  2001 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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