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title: Time words help plan: a "fortnight" is 14 days, and "every other Thu… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Time words help plan: a "fortnight" is 14 days, and "every other Thursday" means every second Thursday, 14 days apart. Who acts: Time words, help plan, other Thursday. A sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Days, weeks and months, sentence 10

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Time words help plan: a "fortnight" is 14 days, and "every other Thursday" means every second Thursday, 14 days apart.

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**Who acts:** Time words, help plan, other Thursday · **What happens:** help, be, mean · **To what, where:** 14 days

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» 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 (Time words, help plan, other Thursday), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:10
# text = Time words help plan: a "fortnight" is 14 days, and "every other Thursday" means every second Thursday, 14 days apart.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 111-days-weeks-and-months.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 ×1
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:unmarked
3	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** |  | Time words |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | help plan | 14 days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | every other Thursday |  |  |  | thursday |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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:world:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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