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title: When Grandad was 10, in 1980, ordinary families had no internet at a… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: When Grandad was 10, in 1980, ordinary families had no internet at all; in the 1990s it came down the phone line through a screeching dial-up modem, and nobody could use the house phone while you were online. Who acts: Grandad, ordinary families, internet, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «"In the o
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# "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 4

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When Grandad was 10, in 1980, ordinary families had no internet at all; in the 1990s it came down the phone line through a screeching dial-up modem, and nobody could use the house phone while you were online.

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**Who acts:** Grandad, ordinary families, internet, nobody · **What happens:** be, have, come down, screech, use · **To what, where:** 10, internet, 1980, phone line, 1990s, house phone

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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 (Grandad, ordinary families, internet, nobody), 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:4
# text = When Grandad was 10, in 1980, ordinary families had no internet at all; in the 1990s it came down the phone line through a screeching dial-up modem, and nobody could use the house phone while you were online.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod
29	dial	dial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound
32	modem	modem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
44	online	online	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## 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 | Grandad | 10 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | ordinary families | no internet |  | 1980 |  | at all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=Patient |
| 3 | **come down** | past | internet | the phone line |  | the 1990s |  | through a screeching dial modem; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through modem=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **screech** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | could | nobody | the house phone |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=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:4`.

**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 ×4, 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.

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

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