--- title: A calendar is a set of rules for counting days into months and years… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics description: A calendar is a set of rules for counting days into months and years so that the dates stay in step with the seasons. Who acts: calendar, rules, dates. A sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How our calendar was made: Romans, Jul…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/) / 0 # How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 0 A calendar is a set of rules for counting days into months and years so that the dates stay in step with the seasons. **Who acts:** calendar, rules, dates · **What happens:** be, count, stay · **To what, where:** set This is a sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world 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 (calendar, rules, dates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made.lesson:0 # text = A calendar is a set of rules for counting days into months and years so that the dates stay in step with the seasons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 116-how-our-calendar-was-made.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 so so SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a calendar | a set | | | | of rules | tree rules | | 2 | **count** | gerund | rules *not said here* | | | | day; month | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **stay** | present | the dates | | | | | in step with the seasons | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in step=Location | 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:116-how-our-calendar-was-made.lesson:0`. **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): 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: [What day of the week will it be?, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/115-what-day-of-the-week-will-it-be/22/) - next →: [How our calendar was made: Romans, Jul…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/)