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description: A coin stamped "25 BC" must be a fake, because people living then could not know that a man would be born 25 years later and years would be counted from him. Who acts: coin, people. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★, sentence 19

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A coin stamped "25 BC" must be a fake, because people living then could not know that a man would be born 25 years later and years would be counted from him.

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**Who acts:** coin, people · **What happens:** stamp, be, live, not know, bear, count · **To what, where:** coin, fake, man, years · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (coin, people), 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:19
# text = A coin stamped "25 BC" must be a fake, because people living then could not know that a man would be born 25 years later and years would be counted from him.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
5	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fake	fake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
26	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **stamp** | participle |  | a coin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must | a coin | a fake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** | could | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bear** | would · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | late *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **count** | would · passive |  | years |  |  |  | from man | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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): R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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