--- title: The 7-day week has several possible origins, including ancient Babyl… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics description: The 7-day week has several possible origins, including ancient Babylon, the Bible's 7 days, the 7 moving objects people could see in the sky, and the Moon's phases about a week apart. Who acts: day week, people. 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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 (day week, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:22 # text = The 7-day week has several possible origins, including ancient Babylon, the Bible's 7 days, the 7 moving objects people could see in the sky, and the Moon's phases about a week apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 111-days-weeks-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): R5-strong ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 origins origin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 including include ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Babylon Babylon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 conj _ _ 23 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 phases phase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 37 about about ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod 40 apart apart ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the day week | several possible origins | | | | include ancient Babylon and the Bible's 7 days and the Moon's phases | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | objects | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent object=Theme | | 3 | **see** | could | people | objects *not said here* | | the sky | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | 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:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:22`. **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): R5-strong ×3. **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, weeks and months, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/20/) - next →: [Days, weeks and months, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/)