--- title: Our year numbers count from a starting point that a monk worked out… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: Our year numbers count from a starting point that a monk worked out about 1,500 years ago. Who acts: year numbers, monk. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/) / 0 # BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 0 Our year numbers count from a starting point that a monk worked out about 1,500 years ago. **Who acts:** year numbers, monk · **What happens:** count, work out · **To what, where:** starting point This is a sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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 (year numbers, monk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.lesson:0 # text = Our year numbers count from a starting point that a monk worked out about 1,500 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 starting starting NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | Our year numbers | | | a starting point | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **work out** | past | a monk | a starting point | | | | ago *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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. **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:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Decades, centuries and millennia, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/20/) - next →: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/)