How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 3

When January and February were moved to the front, the old names stayed behind, like a kid who keeps the nickname "Shorty" after growing tall.

Who acts: old names, kid · What happens: move, stay, keep, grow · To what, where: January, front, nickname

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 (old names, kid), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 moved	mark
2	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 February	cc
4	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 January	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	aux:pass
6	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stayed	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moved	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 names	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 names	amod
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stayed	nsubj
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	behind	behind	ADV	_	14 stayed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kid	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 kid	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 kid	det
19	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stayed	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 keeps	nsubj
21	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 kid	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nickname	det
23	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keeps	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Shorty	punct
25	Shorty	shorty	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 nickname	appos
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Shorty	punct
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 growing	mark
28	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 keeps	advcl
29	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 growing	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		January and February	the front		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to front=Trajectory
2	stay	past	the old names			like a kid; behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	a kid	the nickname			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=Theme
4	grow	gerund	a kid not said here			tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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): R8-pos-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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