--- title: English schools have three terms with half-term breaks and about 6 w… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics description: English schools have three terms with half-term breaks and about 6 weeks off in summer; many US schools finish in late May; Scottish schools break up in late June; in Ukraine the summer holidays last about 3 months and the school year starts on 1 September, the Day of Knowledge. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English schools, many US schools, Scottish schools, summer holidays), 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:8 # text = English schools have three terms with half-term breaks and about 6 weeks off in summer; many US schools finish in late May; Scottish schools break up in late June; in Ukraine the summer holidays last about 3 months and the school year starts on 1 September, the Day of Knowledge. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 breaks break NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 15 off off ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 38 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 41 about about ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obl 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 48 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 49 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 48 obl _ _ 51 September September PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod:unmarked _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 Knowledge Knowledge PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | English schools | three terms and 6 weeks in summer | | | | with term breaks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Patient | | 2 | **finish** | present | many US schools | | | | may | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **break up** | present | Scottish schools | | | | june | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **last** | present | the summer holidays | | | Ukraine | month | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **start** | present | the school year | | | 1 September | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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:8`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/7/) - next →: [Seasons, terms and holidays, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/)