How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 16

The Julian year was about 11 minutes too long, which adds up to about one whole day every 130 years (11 × 130 = 1,430 minutes, close to the 1,440 minutes in a day).

Who acts: Julian year · What happens: be, add up

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 (Julian year), 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	3 year	det
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 year	compound
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 long	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 11	advmod
6	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 long	obl:unmarked
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 adds	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 adds	nsubj
12	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 adds	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 day	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adds	obl
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 years	det
20	130	130	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 day	nmod:unmarked
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 11	punct
23	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 minutes	nummod
24	×	×	SYM	Number=Sing	23 11	nmod:unmarked
25	130	130	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 11	flat
26	=	=	SYM	_	27 1,430	case
27	1,430	1,430	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 minutes	nummod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 close	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 close	punct
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 adds	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 minutes	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 minutes	det
33	1,440	1,440	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 minutes	nummod
34	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 close	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 day	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 day	det
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 minutes	nmod
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 adds	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 long	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	past	the Julian year				minute	long property	tree rules
2	add up speech: assert	present					day		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:16.

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.

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