--- title: In the old Roman calendar the year began in March, so September (sep… — Days of the week and months · tree and pragmatics description: In the old Roman calendar the year began in March, so September (sept = 7) was the seventh month, October (oct = 8) the eighth, November (nov = 9) the ninth and December (déc = 10) the tenth. Who acts: year, sept. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, sept), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson:17 # text = In the old Roman calendar the year began in March, so September (sept = 7) was the seventh month, October (oct = 8) the eighth, November (nov = 9) the ninth and December (déc = 10) the tenth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 5 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 13 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sept sept NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 = = SYM SYM _ 17 case _ _ 17 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 seventh seventh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 oct oct NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 = = SYM SYM _ 26 compound _ _ 28 8 8 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 discourse _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 eighth eighth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 35 nov November PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 = = SYM SYM _ 27 compound _ _ 37 9 9 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 discourse _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ninth ninth NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 44 déc déc NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ _ 45 = = SYM SYM _ 46 case _ _ 46 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 nmod _ _ 47 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the year | | | the old Roman calendar | march | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | past | sept September = 7 | the seventh month | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:french:010-days-of-the-week-and-months.lesson:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Days of the week and months, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/16/) - next →: [Days of the week and months, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/10-days-of-the-week-and-months/)