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title: Chinese, Islamic and Jewish calendars count years differently, and t… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chinese, Islamic and Jewish calendars count years differently, and they are just as real. Who acts: Chinese Jewish calendars, calendars. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 21

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Chinese, Islamic and Jewish calendars count years differently, and they are just as real.

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**Who acts:** Chinese Jewish calendars, calendars · **What happens:** count, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history 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 (Chinese Jewish calendars, calendars), 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:21
# text = Chinese, Islamic and Jewish calendars count years differently, and they are just as real.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×2
1	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
5	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	calendars	calendar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Chinese Jewish calendars |  |  |  | year | differently *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | calendars *= calendar* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:21`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×2. **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/).

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