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title: Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC, 2,069 years before 2026. — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC, 2,069 years before 2026. 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 clause.
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# BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines, sentence 16

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Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC, 2,069 years before 2026.

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**What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** Julius, 44

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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: 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:16
# text = Julius Caesar was killed in 44 BC, 2,069 years before 2026.
# 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): no change
1	Julius	Julius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	2,069	2,069	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **kill** | past · passive |  | Julius |  | 44  BC | year |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:16`.

**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): no change. **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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