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title: On 18 December, Christmas on the 25th is 25 − 18 = 7 sleeps away. — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: On 18 December, Christmas on the 25th is 25 − 18 = 7 sleeps away. Who acts: December Christmas. A sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 1

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On 18 December, Christmas on the 25th is 25 − 18 = 7 sleeps away.

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**Who acts:** December Christmas · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 18 sleeps, 18

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps"» 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 (December Christmas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:1
# text = On 18 December, Christmas on the 25th is 25 − 18 = 7 sleeps away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.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
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
8	25th	25th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	14	case	_	_
14	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	sleeps	sleep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | December Christmas  the 25th | 18 sleeps |  | 18 |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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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:114-birthdays-ages-and-how-many-sleeps.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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