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title: A fortnight is 14 days; the word comes from old English "fourteen ni… — Days, weeks and months · tree and pragmatics
description: A fortnight is 14 days; the word comes from old English "fourteen nights", and a date a fortnight later falls on the same weekday. Who acts: fortnight, word, date. A sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Days, weeks and months, sentence 20

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A fortnight is 14 days; the word comes from old English "fourteen nights", and a date a fortnight later falls on the same weekday.

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**Who acts:** fortnight, word, date · **What happens:** be, come, fall · **To what, where:** 14 days, same weekday

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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 (fortnight, word, date), 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:20
# text = A fortnight is 14 days; the word comes from old English "fourteen nights", and a date a fortnight later falls on the same weekday.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod
12	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	weekday	weekday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a fortnight | 14 days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the word |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | a date |  |  | the same weekday |  | late *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on weekday=Location |

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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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**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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