How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 14

In 46 BC Julius Caesar made one year 445 days long, 80 days more than 365, to put the calendar back in step with the seasons; it was called the year of confusion.

Who acts: Julius · What happens: make, put back, call · To what, where: 46, calendar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Julius), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 46	case
2	46	46	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 made	obl
3	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 46	nmod:unmarked
4	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Julius	flat
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 year	nummod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	445	445	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 year	appos
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
13	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 more	obl:unmarked
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 365	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 365	case
17	365	365	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 made	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 put	mark
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 calendar	det
22	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 step	case
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 seasons	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seasons	det
28	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 step	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 called	aux:pass
32	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 year	det
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 called	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 confusion	case
36	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 year	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Julius		46 BC	year	than 365	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	put back	to-infinitive	Julius not said here	the calendar			in step with the seasons	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme in step=Destination
3	call	past · passive		calendar				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:14.

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 ×2. 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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