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title: What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for a… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Jul… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for another 1,300 years? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 4 · ★ · How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope…

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What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for another 1,300 years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** happen, keep · **To what, where:** calendar

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:t4:1
# text = What would happen if we had kept Caesar's calendar, unchanged, for another 1,300 years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	1,300	1,300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | we | Caesar's calendar |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, because Caesar's year was exactly right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because Caesar's year was exactly right
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Caesar's year |  |  |  |  | exactly, right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Christmas would land right in the middle of a hot summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:t4:o2:1
# text = Christmas would land right in the middle of a hot summer
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | would | Christmas |  |  | the middle of a hot summer |  | right *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would slip about 10 more days away from the seasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:t4:o3:1
# text = It would slip about 10 more days away from the seasons
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | would | It |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would slip by only about 10 minutes in all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:t4:o4:1
# text = It would slip by only about 10 minutes in all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | would | It |  |  |  | minute | in all | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in all=Attribute |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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