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title: Centuries are counted from year 1, so the 1st century was years 1 to… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: Centuries are counted from year 1, so the 1st century was years 1 to 100, and the century's number is one more than its hundreds: the 1800s are roughly the 19th century, and we live in the 21st, from 2001 to 2100. Who acts: 1st century, number, 1800s, we. A sentence of the lesson «Decades, centuries
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# Decades, centuries and millennia, sentence 2

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Centuries are counted from year 1, so the 1st century was years 1 to 100, and the century's number is one more than its hundreds: the 1800s are roughly the 19th century, and we live in the 21st, from 2001 to 2100.

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**Who acts:** 1st century, number, 1800s, we · **What happens:** count, be, live · **To what, where:** Centuries, years, 19th century, 21st

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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 (1st century, number, 1800s, we), 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:2
# text = Centuries are counted from year 1, so the 1st century was years 1 to 100, and the century's number is one more than its hundreds: the 1800s are roughly the 19th century, and we live in the 21st, from 2001 to 2100.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	1st	1st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nummod
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	21st	21st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	40	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	46	nmod	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **count** | present · passive |  | Centuries |  |  | year |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the 1st century | years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the century's number |  |  |  |  | than number's hundreds; one *obl*; more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the 1800s | the 19th century |  |  |  | roughly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present | we |  |  | the 21st |  | from 2001 to 2100 | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 21st=Location |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

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