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title: Between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away one, because there is no year 0. Who acts: you, year. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★, sentence 9

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Between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away one, because there is no year 0.

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**Who acts:** you, year · **What happens:** add, take away, be · **To what, where:** two numbers, one

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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 (you, year), 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:9
# text = Between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away one, because there is no year 0.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	BC	BC	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the two numbers |  |  | year |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no year |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): 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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