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title: Holidays cost more in school holiday weeks because many families wan… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Holidays cost more in school holiday weeks because many families want them then; £1,200 − £800 = £400 more. Who acts: Holidays, many families. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 22

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Holidays cost more in school holiday weeks because many families want them then; £1,200 − £800 = £400 more.

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**Who acts:** Holidays, many families · **What happens:** cost, want · **To what, where:** more, holidays

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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 (Holidays, many families), 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:22
# text = Holidays cost more in school holiday weeks because many families want them then; £1,200 − £800 = £400 more.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	parataxis	_	_
16	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	18	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:dep
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	conj	_	_
19	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	punct	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cost** | present | Holidays | more |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 2 | **want** | present | many families | holidays *= holiday* |  |  | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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