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title: Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on "23 April 1616", but England… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on "23 April 1616", but England used the Julian calendar and Spain the Gregorian, so they died about 10 days apart. Who acts: Shakespeare, England. A sentence of the lesson «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of 
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# How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory, sentence 23

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Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on "23 April 1616", but England used the Julian calendar and Spain the Gregorian, so they died about 10 days apart.

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**Who acts:** Shakespeare, England · **What happens:** die, use · **To what, where:** 23, Julian calendar

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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 (Shakespeare, England), 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:23
# text = Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on "23 April 1616", but England used the Julian calendar and Spain the Gregorian, so they died about 10 days apart.
# 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	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Cervantes	Cervantes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
9	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	1616	1616	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Gregorian	Gregorian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked
30	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Shakespeare and Cervantes |  |  | 23  April |  | both *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | past | England | the Julian calendar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | Shakespeare |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:23`.

**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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