How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 23
Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on "23 April 1616", but England used the Julian calendar and Spain the Gregorian, so they died about 10 days apart.
Who acts: Shakespeare, England · What happens: die, use · To what, where: 23, Julian calendar
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 (Shakespeare, England), 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 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 died | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Cervantes | cc |
| 3 | Cervantes | Cervantes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Shakespeare | conj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 died | advmod |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 23 | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 23 | punct |
| 8 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 died | obl |
| 9 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 23 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | 1616 | 1616 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 April | flat |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 April | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 used | cc |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 died | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 calendar | det |
| 17 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 calendar | compound |
| 18 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Spain | cc |
| 20 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 used | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gregorian | det |
| 22 | Gregorian | Gregorian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 died | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 died | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 died | nsubj |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | conj |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 10 | advmod |
| 28 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 apart | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 26 died | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Shakespeare and Cervantes | 23 April | both property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | use | past | England | the Julian calendar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | past | Shakespeare | apart property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:23.
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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