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title: Old things also look old because they have aged: photos on film fade… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Old things also look old because they have aged: photos on film fade and go orange. Who acts: Old things, things, photos. 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 7

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Old things also look old because they have aged: photos on film fade and go orange.

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**Who acts:** Old things, things, photos · **What happens:** look, age, fade, go

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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 (Old things, things, photos), 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:7
# text = Old things also look old because they have aged: photos on film fade and go orange.
# 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	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **look** | present | Old things |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **age** | present · perfect | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fade** | present | photos on film |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | photos on film *not said here* |  |  |  |  | orange *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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.

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