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title: No human lives a millennium, but some bristlecone pine trees in the… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: No human lives a millennium, but some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old. Who acts: human, bristlecone pine trees. 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 cla
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# Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 18

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No human lives a millennium, but some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old.

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**Who acts:** human, bristlecone pine trees · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** millennium

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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 (human, bristlecone pine trees), 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:18
# text = No human lives a millennium, but some bristlecone pine trees in the USA are over 4,000 years old.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	human	human	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
9	bristlecone	bristlecone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | no human | a millennium |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme millennium=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | some bristlecone pine trees in the USA |  |  |  | year | old *property* | 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:18`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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