--- title: To find how long since something happened, count up from the earlier… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: To find how long since something happened, count up from the earlier time to now. Who acts: you, something. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/9/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / 9 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 9 To find how long since something happened, count up from the earlier time to now. **Who acts:** you, something · **What happens:** find, happen, count up This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:9 # text = To find how long since something happened, count up from the earlier time to now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 since since SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 11 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **happen** | past | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **count up** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | time | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [How long since? Counting back, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/8/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)