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title: "The eighties" means the decade from 1980 to 1989, not 80 years ago,… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: "The eighties" means the decade from 1980 to 1989, not 80 years ago, and "the noughties" means 2000 to 2009. Who acts: eighties, noughties. A sentence of the lesson «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 1

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"The eighties" means the decade from 1980 to 1989, not 80 years ago, and "the noughties" means 2000 to 2009.

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**Who acts:** eighties, noughties · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** 2000

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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 (eighties, noughties), 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:1
# text = "The eighties" means the decade from 1980 to 1989, not 80 years ago, and "the noughties" means 2000 to 2009.
# 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): no change
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eighties	eighties	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	decade	decade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	noughties	noughty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	2009	2009	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | the eighties |  |  |  | decade | ago *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the noughties | 2000 |  |  |  | to 2009 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 2000=Theme to 2009=Attribute |

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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:1`.

**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/).

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