How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 0
A calendar is a set of rules for counting days into months and years so that the dates stay in step with the seasons.
Who acts: calendar, rules, dates · What happens: be, count, stay · To what, where: set
This is a sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» 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 (calendar, rules, dates), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 calendar | det |
| 2 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rules | case |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 counting | mark |
| 9 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rules | acl |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counting | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counting | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 years | cc |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 months | conj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 stay | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dates | det |
| 18 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 counting | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 step | case |
| 21 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stay | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 seasons | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seasons | det |
| 24 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 step | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
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 | is a | present | a calendar | a set | of rules | tree rules | |||
| 2 | count | gerund | rules not said here | day; month | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | the dates | in step with the seasons | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in step=Location |
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:116-how-our-calendar-was-made.lesson:0.
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.
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