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title: The third millennium began on 1 January 2001, but most people celebr… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: The third millennium began on 1 January 2001, but most people celebrated in 2000. Who acts: third millennium, most people. 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 clause.
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# Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 14

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The third millennium began on 1 January 2001, but most people celebrated in 2000.

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**Who acts:** third millennium, most people · **What happens:** begin, celebrate · **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 (third millennium, most people), 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:14
# text = The third millennium began on 1 January 2001, but most people celebrated in 2000.
# 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **begin** | past | the third millennium |  |  |  | january |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **celebrate** | past | most people |  |  | 2000 |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:14`.

**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. **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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