--- title: The Game Boy of 1989 had a small greenish screen and kids loved it a… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: The Game Boy of 1989 had a small greenish screen and kids loved it as much as kids love new consoles now; music came on cassette tapes, and people wound the tape back with a pencil to save the batteries. Who acts: Game Boy, kids, music, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Game Boy, kids, music, people), 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:6 # text = The Game Boy of 1989 had a small greenish screen and kids loved it as much as kids love new consoles now; music came on cassette tapes, and people wound the tape back with a pencil to save the batteries. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Game game PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 consoles console NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 now now ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 cassette cassette NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tapes tape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 wound wind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Game Boy of 1989 | a small greenish screen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=Patient | | 2 | **love** | past | kids | screen | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **love** | present | kids | new consoles | | | now | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer console=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | past | music | | | cassette tapes | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tape=Location | | 5 | **wind back** | past | people | the tape | | | | with a pencil | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tape=Theme | | 6 | **save** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | the batteries | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme | 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. **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:6`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/5/) - next →: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/)