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title: Cassettes were tapes for music, common from the 1970s to the 1990s. — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Cassettes were tapes for music, common from the 1970s to the 1990s. Who acts: Cassettes. 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 19

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Cassettes were tapes for music, common from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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**Who acts:** Cassettes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tapes

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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 (Cassettes), 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:19
# text = Cassettes were tapes for music, common from the 1970s to the 1990s.
# 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): no change
1	Cassettes	cassette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tapes	tape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | past | Cassettes | tapes |  |  |  | for music | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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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