--- title: Turn it round to find a birth year: Grandma turning 80 in 2026 was b… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics description: Turn it round to find a birth year: Grandma turning 80 in 2026 was born in 2026 − 80 = 1946. Who acts: you, Grandma. A sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/8/) [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/) / [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/) / 8 # Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 8 Turn it round to find a birth year: Grandma turning 80 in 2026 was born in 2026 − 80 = 1946. **Who acts:** you, Grandma · **What happens:** turn round, find, turn, bear · **To what, where:** age, 80, Grandma, 2026 This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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, Grandma), 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:8 # text = Turn it round to find a birth year: Grandma turning 80 in 2026 was born in 2026 − 80 = 1946. # 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): no change 1 Turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 round round ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl _ _ 12 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 − − SYM SYM Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 = = SYM SYM _ 22 case _ _ 22 1946 1946 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn round** | imperative | you *not said here* | age | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | year | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | Grandma *not said here* | 80 | | | | in 2026 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent 80=Patient in 2026=Topic | | 4 | **bear** | past · passive | | Grandma | | 2026 80 = 1946 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/7/) - next →: [Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps/)