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title: Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 Septem… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 September, skipping 11 dates. Who acts: Britain. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 19

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Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 September, skipping 11 dates.

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**Who acts:** Britain · **What happens:** switch, follow, skip · **To what, where:** 1752, 2 September, 11 dates

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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 (Britain), 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:19
# text = Britain switched in 1752, when 2 September was followed by 14 September, skipping 11 dates.
# 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
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1752	1752	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
16	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch** | past | Britain |  |  | 1752 |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | past · passive |  | 2 September |  |  |  | by 14  September | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 14=Trajectory |
| 3 | **skip** | gerund |  | 11 dates |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Agent |

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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:19`.

**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. **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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