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title: Holiday weeks cost more, because lots of families want to go at the… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Holiday weeks cost more, because lots of families want to go at the same time: a trip that is £800 one week can be £1,200 in half-term, £400 more. Who acts: Holiday weeks, lots. A sentence of the lesson «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Seasons, terms and holidays, sentence 9

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Holiday weeks cost more, because lots of families want to go at the same time: a trip that is £800 one week can be £1,200 in half-term, £400 more.

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**Who acts:** Holiday weeks, lots · **What happens:** cost, want, go · **To what, where:** more

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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 (Holiday weeks, lots), 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:9
# text = Holiday weeks cost more, because lots of families want to go at the same time: a trip that is £800 one week can be £1,200 in half-term, £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 ×2
1	Holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod
23	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	nmod	_	_
29	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	33	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	£	£	SYM	$	_	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | present | Holiday weeks | more |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |
| 2 | **want** | present | lots of families |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lots of families *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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 ×2. **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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