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title: There is no year 0, so a Roman born in 20 BC turned 39 on his birthd… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no year 0, so a Roman born in 20 BC turned 39 on his birthday in AD 20. Who acts: year, Roman. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 17

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There is no year 0, so a Roman born in 20 BC turned 39 on his birthday in AD 20.

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**Who acts:** year, Roman · **What happens:** be, bear, turn · **To what, where:** Roman, 20 BC, 39, birthday

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» 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 (year, Roman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:17
# text = There is no year 0, so a Roman born in 20 BC turned 39 on his birthday in AD 20.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.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	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **be** | present | no year |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | a Roman *not said here* |  | 20 BC |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **turn** | past | a Roman | 39 |  | Roman's birthday and AD |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 39=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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**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:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles.lesson:17`.

**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.

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

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