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title: In 46 BC Julius Caesar made one year 445 days long, 80 days more tha… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 46 BC Julius Caesar made one year 445 days long, 80 days more than 365, to put the calendar back in step with the seasons; it was called the year of confusion. Who acts: Julius. A sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mov
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 14

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In 46 BC Julius Caesar made one year 445 days long, 80 days more than 365, to put the calendar back in step with the seasons; it was called the year of confusion.

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**Who acts:** Julius · **What happens:** make, put back, call · **To what, where:** 46, 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 (Julius), 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:14
# text = In 46 BC Julius Caesar made one year 445 days long, 80 days more than 365, to put the calendar back in step with the seasons; it was called the year of confusion.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	46	46	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	Julius	Julius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	445	445	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	365	365	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl:unmarked
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | past | Julius |  |  | 46  BC | year | than 365 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put back** | to-infinitive | Julius *not said here* | the calendar |  |  |  | in step with the seasons | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme in step=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | calendar |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:14`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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