How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 19
Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 September, skipping 11 dates.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: switch, follow, skip · To what, where: 1752, 2 September, 11 dates
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 (Britain), 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 switched | nsubj |
| 2 | switched | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1752 | case |
| 4 | 1752 | 1752 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 switched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 followed | advmod |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 September | nummod |
| 8 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | aux:pass |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 1752 | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 14 | case |
| 12 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 followed | obl |
| 13 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 14 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skipping | punct |
| 15 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 followed | advcl |
| 16 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 dates | nummod |
| 17 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 skipping | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 switched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch | past | Britain | 1752 | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | follow | past · passive | 2 September | by 14 September | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 14=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | skip | gerund | 11 dates | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Agent |
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:19.
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. 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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