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title: Years after it are AD ("Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of the… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Years after it are AD ("Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of the Lord"), also written CE; years before it are BC ("before Christ"), also written BCE. Who acts: Years, Christ. A sentence of the lesson «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school w
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 1

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Years after it are AD ("Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of the Lord"), also written CE; years before it are BC ("before Christ"), also written BCE.

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**Who acts:** Years, Christ · **What happens:** be, write · **To what, where:** AD, BC, BCE

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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 (Years, Christ), 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:1
# text = Years after it are AD ("Anno Domini", Latin for "in the year of the Lord"), also written CE; years before it are BC ("before Christ"), also written BCE.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	Anno	Anno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Domini	Domini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	CE	ce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Years and years before point | AD and BC |  |  | after point |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Years and years before point *not said here* | BC |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | participle | Christ *not said here* | BCE |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bce=Theme |

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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:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines.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): 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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