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title: On a 1-metre timeline of the last 2,000 years, each centimetre stand… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines · tree and pragmatics
description: On a 1-metre timeline of the last 2,000 years, each centimetre stands for 20 years. Who acts: centimetre. 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 24

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On a 1-metre timeline of the last 2,000 years, each centimetre stands for 20 years.

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**Who acts:** centimetre · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** metre timeline

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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 (centimetre), 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:24
# text = On a 1-metre timeline of the last 2,000 years, each centimetre stands for 20 years.
# 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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	timeline	timeline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **stand** | present | each centimetre |  |  | a metre timeline of the last 2,000 years | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on timeline=Location |

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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:24`.

**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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