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title: 1990 was 36 years before 2026; the Middle Ages, in Europe roughly th… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: 1990 was 36 years before 2026; the Middle Ages, in Europe roughly the years 500 to 1500, ended about 500 years ago. Who acts: 1990, Middle Ages. 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 
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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 10

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1990 was 36 years before 2026; the Middle Ages, in Europe roughly the years 500 to 1500, ended about 500 years ago.

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**Who acts:** 1990, Middle Ages · **What happens:** be, end · **To what, where:** 36 years

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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 (1990, Middle Ages), 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:10
# text = 1990 was 36 years before 2026; the Middle Ages, in Europe roughly the years 500 to 1500, ended about 500 years ago.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Middle	Middle	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
14	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod
17	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
21	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **is a** | past | 1990 | 36 years |  |  | before 2026 |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | past | the Middle Ages in Europe |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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