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title: Old photos were taken on film, and their colours fade over time, oft… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Old photos were taken on film, and their colours fade over time, often going orange or yellow. Who acts: colours. 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.
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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 16

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Old photos were taken on film, and their colours fade over time, often going orange or yellow.

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**Who acts:** colours · **What happens:** take, fade, go · **To what, where:** Old photos, film

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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 (colours), 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:16
# text = Old photos were taken on film, and their colours fade over time, often going orange or yellow.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
17	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **take** | past · passive |  | Old photos |  | film |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on film=Destination |
| 2 | **fade** | present | photos's colours |  |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | photos's colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | often, orange *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:126-in-the-olden-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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