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title: Russia and Ukraine switched in 1918, when the gap had grown to 13 da… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Russia and Ukraine switched in 1918, when the gap had grown to 13 days (it had been 13 days since 1900), so old papers may show dates as "O.S." (old style, Julian) and "N.S." (new style, Gregorian). Who acts: Russia, gap, old papers. A sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Juliu
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 21

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Russia and Ukraine switched in 1918, when the gap had grown to 13 days (it had been 13 days since 1900), so old papers may show dates as "O.S." (old style, Julian) and "N.S." (new style, Gregorian).

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**Who acts:** Russia, gap, old papers · **What happens:** switch, grow, be, show · **To what, where:** 1918, 13 days, 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 (Russia, gap, old papers), 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:21
# text = Russia and Ukraine switched in 1918, when the gap had grown to 13 days (it had been 13 days since 1900), so old papers may show dates as "O.S." (old style, Julian) and "N.S." (new style, Gregorian).
# 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
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	switched	switch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
20	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
22	since	since	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
31	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	O.S	O.S	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Julian	julian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	39	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	_
45	N.S	N.S	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	_
48	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	50	punct	_	_
49	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	Gregorian	Gregorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
53	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **switch** | past | Russia and Ukraine |  |  | 1918 |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past · perfect | the gap |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | gap | 13 days |  |  | since 1900 |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** | may | old papers | dates |  |  |  | as O.S and N.S | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent date=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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**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. **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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