--- title: For days in the same month, just take one date from the other: a bea… — How long since? Counting back · tree and pragmatics description: For days in the same month, just take one date from the other: a bean planted on 2 March that sprouts on 16 March took 16 − 2 = 14 days, two weeks, which the British call a fortnight. Who acts: you, bean, British. A sentence of the lesson «How long since? Counting back» of the world course of Mova's --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # How long since? Counting back, sentence 8 For days in the same month, just take one date from the other: a bean planted on 2 March that sprouts on 16 March took 16 − 2 = 14 days, two weeks, which the British call a fortnight. **Who acts:** you, bean, British · **What happens:** take, plant, sprout, call · **To what, where:** one date, other, bean, 2, 16, two weeks · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, bean, British), 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:8 # text = For days in the same month, just take one date from the other: a bean planted on 2 March that sprouts on 16 March took 16 − 2 = 14 days, two weeks, which the British call a fortnight. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 18 planted plant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 21 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sprouts sprout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 28 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 − − SYM NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 flat _ _ 31 = = SYM SYM _ 32 case _ _ 32 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nsubj _ _ 41 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 fortnight fortnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 . . 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | one date | | the other | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent date=Theme from other=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **plant** | participle | | a bean *not said here* | | 2 March | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on 2=Destination | | 3 | **sprout** | present | a bean | | | 16 | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 16=Location | | 4 | **take** | past | a bean | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent −=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | the British | two weeks | | | fortnight | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | 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: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. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/7/) - next →: [How long since? Counting back, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/108-how-long-since-counting-back/)