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title: Weekdays are Monday to Friday; in Britain, the USA and most countrie… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: Weekdays are Monday to Friday; in Britain, the USA and most countries the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. Who acts: Weekdays, weekend. A sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Days, weeks and months, sentence 16

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Weekdays are Monday to Friday; in Britain, the USA and most countries the weekend is Saturday and Sunday.

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**Who acts:** Weekdays, weekend · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Monday, Britain, Saturday

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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 (Weekdays, weekend), 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:16
# text = Weekdays are Monday to Friday; in Britain, the USA and most countries the weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Weekdays	weekday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:RBS:Degree=Sup
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Weekdays | Monday |  | Britain and the USA and most countries | friday |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the weekend | Saturday and Sunday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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, R8-pos-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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