--- title: There are several reasons and nobody is completely sure: the ancient… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics description: There are several reasons and nobody is completely sure: the ancient Babylonians used it, the Bible tells of 7 days, people could see 7 objects moving in the sky (the Sun, the Moon and five planets), and the Moon changes from new to half to full in roughly 7-day steps. 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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 (several reasons, nobody, ancient Babylonians, Bible), 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:9 # text = There are several reasons and nobody is completely sure: the ancient Babylonians used it, the Bible tells of 7 days, people could see 7 objects moving in the sky (the Sun, the Moon and five planets), and the Moon changes from new to half to full in roughly 7-day steps. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 completely completely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Babylonians babylonian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 27 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 planets planet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:det 46 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 47 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:nmod 52 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 nmod _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 55 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 56 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 57 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ _ 58 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:nmod 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | several reasons | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | nobody | | | | | completely, sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | past | the ancient Babylonians | side | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible | | | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **see** | could | people | 7 objects and five planets | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | | 6 | **move** | gerund | 7 objects and five planets *not said here* | | | the sky | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory | | 7 | **change** | present | the Moon | | | new half to full | | in day steps | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from half=Initial\_State | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Days, weeks and months, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/8/) - next →: [Days, weeks and months, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/111-days-weeks-and-months/)