--- title: Some old dates are traditions rather than measurements, like Kyiv's… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: Some old dates are traditions rather than measurements, like Kyiv's founding in AD 482, and big claims, like aliens building Stonehenge, need evidence: archaeologists have found the tools, homes and bones of the people who really built it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old dates, measurements, big claims, archaeologists), 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:11 # text = Some old dates are traditions rather than measurements, like Kyiv's founding in AD 482, and big claims, like aliens building Stonehenge, need evidence: archaeologists have found the tools, homes and bones of the people who really built it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 traditions tradition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 8 cc _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 measurements measurement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 Kyiv Kyiv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 founding found VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 16 482 482 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 claims claim NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 aliens alien NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 24 building build VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 25 Stonehenge Stonehenge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 27 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 archaeologists archaeologist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 43 really really ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some old dates | traditions rather measurements | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **found** | gerund | measurements *not said here* | | | AD | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **build** | gerund | big claims like aliens *not said here* | Stonehenge | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stonehenge=Product | | 4 | **need** | present | big claims like aliens | evidence | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot evidence=Theme | | 5 | **find** | present · perfect | archaeologists | the tools of the people and homes and bones | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Topic | | 6 | **build** | past | the people | evidence | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | 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:11`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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