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title: Big stretches of time have names: a decade is 10 years, a century 10… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: Big stretches of time have names: a decade is 10 years, a century 100 years and a millennium 1,000 years (two or more are millennia). Who acts: Big stretches, decade, two. A sentence of the lesson «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 0

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Big stretches of time have names: a decade is 10 years, a century 100 years and a millennium 1,000 years (two or more are millennia).

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**Who acts:** Big stretches, decade, two · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** names, 10 years, millennia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Decades, centuries and millennia» 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 (Big stretches, decade, two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia.lesson:0
# text = Big stretches of time have names: a decade is 10 years, a century 100 years and a millennium 1,000 years (two or more are millennia).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 124-decades-centuries-millennia.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stretches	stretch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl:unmarked
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	millennia	millennium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | Big stretches of time | names |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a decade | 10 years and a century and a millennium and 100 years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | two | millennia |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia.lesson:0`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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