How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 22
The Ethiopian calendar has 12 months of 30 days and a short 13th month of 5 or 6 days; its year number is about 7 or 8 behind ours and its New Year is in September.
Who acts: Ethiopian calendar, year number, New Year · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 7
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 (Ethiopian calendar, year number, New 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 calendar | det |
| 2 | Ethiopian | Ethiopian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 calendar | amod |
| 3 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 months | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 month | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 month | amod |
| 13 | 13th | 13th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 14 month | amod |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 months | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 6 | cc |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 5 | conj |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 month | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 7 | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 number | nmod:poss |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 number | compound |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 7 | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 7 | cop |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 7 | advmod |
| 26 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 has | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 8 | cc |
| 28 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 7 | conj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 ours | case |
| 30 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 7 | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 September | cc |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Year | nmod:poss |
| 33 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Year | compound |
| 34 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 September | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 September | cop |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 September | case |
| 37 | September | September | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 7 | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Ethiopian calendar | month | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | calendar's year number | 7 and September | behind ours; about property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | calendar's New Year | in September | 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:22.
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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