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title: In England the school year has 3 terms, autumn, spring and summer, w… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: In England the school year has 3 terms, autumn, spring and summer, with a half-term break of about a week in each, and about 6 weeks of summer holiday. Who acts: school year. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 17

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In England the school year has 3 terms, autumn, spring and summer, with a half-term break of about a week in each, and about 6 weeks of summer holiday.

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**Who acts:** school year · **What happens:** have, break · **To what, where:** 3 terms, England, week

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» 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 (school year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:17
# text = In England the school year has 3 terms, autumn, spring and summer, with a half-term break of about a week in each, and about 6 weeks of summer holiday.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | the school year | 3 terms and autumn and spring and summer and a term break of a week in each and 6 weeks of summer holiday |  | England |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Patient |
| 2 | **break** |  |  | a week in each |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays.lesson:17`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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