--- title: "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "when I was young", so the da… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "when I was young", so the day changes with whoever says it. Who acts: day, I. A sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/1/) [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/) / ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/) / 1 # "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 1 "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "when I was young", so the day changes with whoever says it. **Who acts:** day, I · **What happens:** mean, be, change, say · **To what, where:** it · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 (day, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:1 # text = "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "when I was young", so the day changes with whoever says it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 126-in-the-olden-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 13 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound 24 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 obl _ _ 27 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | my day | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **change** | present | the day | | | | | with whoever | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | it | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:126-in-the-olden-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/26/) - next →: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/)