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title: "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "in the past, when I was youn… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "in the past, when I was young". Who acts: Ukraine. 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 20

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"Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "in the past, when I was young".

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**Who acts:** Ukraine · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** past · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ukraine), 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:20
# text = "Back in the day" and "in my day" mean "in the past, when I was young".
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
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=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	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	2	conj	_	_
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	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **mean** | present |  | the past |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Ukraine |  |  |  |  | young *property* | 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:20`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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