--- title: Our year numbers count from the birth of Jesus, worked out by a monk… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics description: Our year numbers count from the birth of Jesus, worked out by a monk called Dionysius around the year 525; years before it count backwards, and BCE and CE mean the same as BC and AD. Who acts: year numbers, birth, BCE. 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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 numbers, birth, BCE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:20 # text = Our year numbers count from the birth of Jesus, worked out by a monk called Dionysius around the year 525; years before it count backwards, and BCE and CE mean the same as BC and AD. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.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 ×1 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 Dionysius Dionysius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 18 around around ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 525 525 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 flat _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 24 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 count count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 27 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 BCE BCE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 CE CE PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 AD AD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | Our year numbers | | | the birth of Jesus | year | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **work out** | participle | | the birth of Jesus *not said here* | | | | by a monk | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | participle | | a monk *not said here* | | | year | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | present | birth | | | | | backwards *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | BCE and CE | the same | | | | as BC and AD | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent same=Topic as bc=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](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:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:20`. **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 ×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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