--- title: To find how many years lie between a BC year and an AD year, add the… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics description: To find how many years lie between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away 1. Who acts: you, many years. 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 c --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 14 To find how many years lie between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away 1. **Who acts:** you, many years · **What happens:** find, lie, add, take away · **To what, where:** two numbers, 1 · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, many years), 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:14 # text = To find how many years lie between a BC year and an AD year, add the two numbers and take away 1. # 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 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 BC BC NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 away away ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | present | many years | | | | year | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the two numbers | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 4 | **take away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | 1 | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1=Theme | 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:14`. **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: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/13/) - next →: [BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/)