--- title: Your birthday is the date you were born, coming round again each yea… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics description: Your birthday is the date you were born, coming round again each year: Tia, born on 12 September 2016, turned 10 on 12 September 2026. Who acts: birthday, date, Tia. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, date, Tia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:20 # text = Your birthday is the date you were born, coming round again each year: Tia, born on 12 September 2016, turned 10 on 12 September 2026. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 round round ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 12 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Tia Tia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 21 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 28 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 29 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | **is a** | present | Your birthday | the date | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | the date *not said here* | you | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **come round** | gerund | Your birthday *not said here* | | | | again; year | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bear** | participle | | Tia *not said here* | | 12 September | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **turn** | past | Tia | 10 | | 12 September | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 10=Theme | 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:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:20`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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