--- title: Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics description: Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent on 24 August 1991, and a grandad who watched the Moon landing on TV at 7, in 1969, was born in about 1962. Who acts: Family dates, Ukraine, grandad. A sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/) / 9 # "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 9 Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent on 24 August 1991, and a grandad who watched the Moon landing on TV at 7, in 1969, was born in about 1962. **Who acts:** Family dates, Ukraine, grandad · **What happens:** line up, become, watch, bear · **To what, where:** Moon landing, TV, grandad, 1962 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 (Family dates, Ukraine, grandad), 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:9 # text = Family dates often line up with history: Ukraine became independent on 24 August 1991, and a grandad who watched the Moon landing on TV at 7, in 1969, was born in about 1962. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 line line VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 14 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 15 1991 1991 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 1969 1969 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 1962 1962 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **line up** | present | Family dates | | | | | with history; often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with history=Theme | | 2 | **become** | past | Ukraine | | | | | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **watch** | past | a grandad | the Moon landing | | TV | | at 7; in 1969 | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Theme | | 4 | **bear** | past · passive | | a grandad | | 1962 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:9`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/8/) - next →: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/126-in-the-olden-days/)