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title: A half-birthday is 6 months after your birthday, because a year has… — Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps" · tree and pragmatics
description: A half-birthday is 6 months after your birthday, because a year has 12 months: 10 January plus 6 months is 10 July. Who acts: half birthday, year. 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
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# Birthdays, ages and "how many sleeps", sentence 22

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A half-birthday is 6 months after your birthday, because a year has 12 months: 10 January plus 6 months is 10 July.

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**Who acts:** half birthday, year · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** 10

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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 (half birthday, year), 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:22
# text = A half-birthday is 6 months after your birthday, because a year has 12 months: 10 January plus 6 months is 10 July.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
20	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
23	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	parataxis	_	_
26	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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** | present | a half birthday |  |  |  | after your birthday; month |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | a year |  |  |  | month |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 10 |  |  | july; month |  | 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: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): no change. **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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