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title: So old dates can come in two versions, "old style" and "new style",… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: So old dates can come in two versions, "old style" and "new style", and a historian must always say which calendar a date is in. Who acts: old dates, historian. 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 w
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 10

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So old dates can come in two versions, "old style" and "new style", and a historian must always say which calendar a date is in.

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**Who acts:** old dates, historian · **What happens:** come in, say · **To what, where:** two versions, calendar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old dates, historian), 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:10
# text = So old dates can come in two versions, "old style" and "new style", and a historian must always say which calendar a date is in.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | can | old dates | two versions |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | a historian | which calendar |  |  |  | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent calendar=Topic |

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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:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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