--- title: Our calendar follows the sky: a day is one turn of the Earth, a mont… — Time zones and the calendar · tree and pragmatics description: Our calendar follows the sky: a day is one turn of the Earth, a month comes from the Moon's phases, and a year is one trip of the Earth around the Sun. Who acts: calendar, day, month, year. 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This is a sentence of the lesson «Time zones and the calendar» 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 (calendar, day, month, year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:2 # text = Our calendar follows the sky: a day is one turn of the Earth, a month comes from the Moon's phases, and a year is one trip of the Earth around the Sun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.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): no change 1 Our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 phases phase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Sun. Sun PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Our calendar | the sky and one turn | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a day | one turn | | | | of the Earth | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | a month | | | the Moon's phases | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from phase=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | a year | one trip | | the Sun. | | of the Earth | tree rules | 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. **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:009-time-zones-and-the-calendar.lesson:2`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Time zones and the calendar, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/1/) - next →: [Time zones and the calendar, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/9-time-zones-and-the-calendar/)