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title: Islamic years are counted from 622, when the Prophet Muhammad moved… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: Islamic years are counted from 622, when the Prophet Muhammad moved from Mecca to Medina; because the years are shorter, the year number is now about 1447 to 1448, more than 2026 − 622 = 1,404. Who acts: Prophet, years, year number. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islami
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 16

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Islamic years are counted from 622, when the Prophet Muhammad moved from Mecca to Medina; because the years are shorter, the year number is now about 1447 to 1448, more than 2026 − 622 = 1,404.

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**Who acts:** Prophet, years, year number · **What happens:** count, move, be · **To what, where:** Islamic years, 622, Medina, Mecca, 1447

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» 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 (Prophet, years, year number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:16
# text = Islamic years are counted from 622, when the Prophet Muhammad moved from Mecca to Medina; because the years are shorter, the year number is now about 1447 to 1448, more than 2026 − 622 = 1,404.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 117-other-calendars.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	622	622	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	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Muhammad	Muhammad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advcl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	1447	1447	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	1448	1448	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	36	advmod	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
37	−	−	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	622	622	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
39	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	40	case	_	_
40	1,404	1,404	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **count** | present · passive |  | Islamic years |  | 622 |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | the Prophet |  | Medina | Mecca |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mecca=Initial\_Location to medina=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | the years |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the year number | 1447 |  |  | now | to 1448; about *property* | tree rules |

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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:117-other-calendars.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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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