Days, weeks and months, sentence 20

A fortnight is 14 days; the word comes from old English "fourteen nights", and a date a fortnight later falls on the same weekday.

Who acts: fortnight, word, date · What happens: be, come, fall · To what, where: 14 days, same weekday

This is a sentence of the lesson «Days, weeks and months» 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 (fortnight, word, date), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fortnight	det
2	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 days	cop
4	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 days	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 English	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nights	amod
12	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nights	amod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 nights	punct
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 nights	nummod
15	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 comes	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 nights	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 falls	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 falls	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 date	det
20	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 falls	nsubj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fortnight	det
22	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 later	obl:unmarked
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 falls	advmod
24	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 weekday	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weekday	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weekday	amod
28	weekday	weekday	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 falls	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 days	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fortnight	14 days				tree rules
2	come	present	the word			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	present	a date		the same weekday		late property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on weekday=Location

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, 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:111-days-weeks-and-months.lesson:20.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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