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title: The Orthodox church kept the old Julian calendar, so Christmas was o… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Orthodox church kept the old Julian calendar, so Christmas was on 7 January, which is 25 December in the Julian calendar. Who acts: Orthodox church, Christmas, 7 January. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the w
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 7

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The Orthodox church kept the old Julian calendar, so Christmas was on 7 January, which is 25 December in the Julian calendar.

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**Who acts:** Orthodox church, Christmas, 7 January · **What happens:** keep, be · **To what, where:** old Julian calendar, 25 December, Julian calendar

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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 (Orthodox church, Christmas, 7 January), 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:7
# text = The Orthodox church kept the old Julian calendar, so Christmas was on 7 January, which is 25 December in the Julian calendar.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **keep** | past | the Orthodox church | the old Julian calendar |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Christmas |  |  |  |  | on 7 January | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 7 January | 25 December |  | the Julian calendar |  |  | 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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**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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