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title: The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and smartphones became common after 2007. Who acts: World Wide Web, YouTube, smartphones. 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 prag
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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 3

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The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and smartphones became common after 2007.

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**Who acts:** World Wide Web, YouTube, smartphones · **What happens:** go, start, become · **To what, where:** 1991, 2005

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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 (World Wide Web, YouTube, smartphones), 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:3
# text = The World Wide Web went public in 1991, YouTube started in 2005, and smartphones became common after 2007.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Web	web	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	YouTube	YouTube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2005	2005	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	smartphones	smartphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | past | the World Wide Web |  |  | 1991 |  | public *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1991=Location |
| 2 | **start** | past | YouTube |  |  | 2005 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **become** | past | smartphones |  |  |  | after 2007 | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:3`.

**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, 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/).

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