Days, weeks and months, sentence 22

The 7-day week has several possible origins, including ancient Babylon, the Bible's 7 days, the 7 moving objects people could see in the sky, and the Moon's phases about a week apart.

Who acts: day week, people · What happens: have, move, see · To what, where: several possible origins, objects, sky

This is a sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» 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 (day week, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 week	det
2	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 7	punct
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 week	compound
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 origins	amod
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 origins	amod
9	origins	origin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Babylon	punct
11	including	include	ADP	_	13 Babylon	case
12	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Babylon	amod
13	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 origins	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 days	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bible	det
16	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 days	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Bible	case
18	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 days	nummod
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Babylon	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 7	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 7	det
22	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Babylon	conj
23	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 7	acl
24	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 moving	obj
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 objects	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 sky	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sky	det
30	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 phases	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 phases	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Moon	det
34	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 phases	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Moon	case
36	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Babylon	conj
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 week	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 week	det
39	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 apart	obl
40	apart	apart	ADV	_	36 phases	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the day week	several possible origins		include ancient Babylon and the Bible's 7 days and the Moon's phases	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient
2	move	gerund		objects			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent object=Theme
3	see	could	people	objects not said here	the sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus

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, 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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:22.

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 ×3. 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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