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title: The Julian year was about 11 minutes too long, which adds up to abou… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Julian year was about 11 minutes too long, which adds up to about one whole day every 130 years (11 × 130 = 1,430 minutes, close to the 1,440 minutes in a day). Who acts: Julian year. A sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 16

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The Julian year was about 11 minutes too long, which adds up to about one whole day every 130 years (11 × 130 = 1,430 minutes, close to the 1,440 minutes in a day).

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**Who acts:** Julian year · **What happens:** be, add up

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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 (Julian year), 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:16
# text = The Julian year was about 11 minutes too long, which adds up to about one whole day every 130 years (11 × 130 = 1,430 minutes, close to the 1,440 minutes in a day).
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
24	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	flat	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	27	case	_	_
27	1,430	1,430	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	1,440	1,440	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | past | the Julian year |  |  |  | minute | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:16`.

**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 ×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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