How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 11
The oldest Roman calendar began the year in March, so September, October, November and December were months 7, 8, 9 and 10.
Who acts: oldest Roman calendar, September · What happens: begin, be · To what, where: months
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 (oldest Roman calendar, September), 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 | 4 calendar | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 calendar | amod |
| 3 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calendar | amod |
| 4 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 March | case |
| 9 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 months | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 months | advmod |
| 12 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 months | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 October | punct |
| 14 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 September | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 November | punct |
| 16 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 September | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 December | cc |
| 18 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 September | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 months | cop |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | conj |
| 21 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 months | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 8 | punct |
| 23 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 7 | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 9 | punct |
| 25 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 7 | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 10 | cc |
| 27 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 7 | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | 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 | begin | past | the oldest Roman calendar | march; year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | September and October and November and December | months | tree rules |
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:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
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