--- title: The years before the year 1 are counted backwards and called BC, bef… — Time and history: the timeline and how people li… · tree and pragmatics description: The years before the year 1 are counted backwards and called BC, before Christ: an event in 3000 BC happened 3000 years before the year 1, about 5000 years ago. Who acts: event. A sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/2/) [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/) / [Time and history: the timeline and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/) / 2 # Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago, sentence 2 The years before the year 1 are counted backwards and called BC, before Christ: an event in 3000 BC happened 3000 years before the year 1, about 5000 years ago. **Who acts:** event · **What happens:** count, call, happen · **To what, where:** years · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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 (event), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:048-time-and-history.lesson:2 # text = The years before the year 1 are counted backwards and called BC, before Christ: an event in 3000 BC happened 3000 years before the year 1, about 5000 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 048-time-and-history.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 counted count VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 backwards backward ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 12 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 3000 3000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 3000 3000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 31 5000 5000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 ago ago ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present · passive | | the years before the year | | | before Christ | backward *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **happen** | past | a event in 3000 | | | | year | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:048-time-and-history.lesson:2`. **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. **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: [Time and history: the timeline and how…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/1/) - next →: [Time and history: the timeline and how…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/)