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title: British English usually says "at the weekend"; American and Australi… — Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that… · tree and pragmatics
description: British English usually says "at the weekend"; American and Australian English usually say "on the weekend". Who acts: British English. A sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 8

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British English usually says "at the weekend"; American and Australian English usually say "on the weekend".

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**Who acts:** British English · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language 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 (British English), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:8
# text = British English usually says "at the weekend"; American and Australian English usually say "on the weekend".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
14	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
15	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
22	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | British English |  |  |  | weekend | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  | weekend | usually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:8`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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