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title: A decade is ten years: «the 1960s» means 1960 to 1969, the decade of… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A decade is ten years: «the 1960s» means 1960 to 1969, the decade of Gagarin's flight in 1961 and the Moon landing in 1969. Who acts: decade, 1960s. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 16

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A decade is ten years: «the 1960s» means 1960 to 1969, the decade of Gagarin's flight in 1961 and the Moon landing in 1969.

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**Who acts:** decade, 1960s · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** ten years, 1960

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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 (decade, 1960s), 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:16
# text = A decade is ten years: «the 1960s» means 1960 to 1969, the decade of Gagarin's flight in 1961 and the Moon landing in 1969.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Gagarin	Gagarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1961	1961	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1969	1969	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a decade | ten years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the 1960s | 1960 |  |  |  | to 1969 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 1960=Theme to 1969=Attribute |

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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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**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:16`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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