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title: Australia and New Zealand have four school terms a year, the UK and… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia and New Zealand have four school terms a year, the UK and Ireland three, and many US schools two semesters. Who acts: Australia. A sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 12

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Australia and New Zealand have four school terms a year, the UK and Ireland three, and many US schools two semesters.

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**Who acts:** Australia · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** four school terms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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 (Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:12
# text = Australia and New Zealand have four school terms a year, the UK and Ireland three, and many US schools two semesters.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.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	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	semesters	semester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | Australia and New Zealand | four school terms  a year  the UK and Ireland |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Patient |

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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): 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/).

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