--- title: From 20 August to 20 October is 2 months, not a year. — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: From 20 August to 20 October is 2 months, not a year. Who acts: 20. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [How long since? Counting back](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/) / 15 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 15 From 20 August to 20 October is 2 months, not a year. **Who acts:** 20 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 2 months This is a sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» 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 (20), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:15 # text = From 20 August to 20 October is 2 months, not a year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 108-how-long-since-counting-back.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 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 3 August August PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 6 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | 20 August to 20 | 2 months | | | | | 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:108-how-long-since-counting-back.lesson:15`. **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: [How long since? Counting back, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/14/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)