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title: Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, wh… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics
description: Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors. Who acts: Bon, Obon. A sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 12

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Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors.

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**Who acts:** Bon, Obon · **What happens:** be, honour · **To what, where:** calm circle dance, Obon, spirits

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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 (Bon, Obon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:12
# text = Bon Odori is a calm circle dance at Japan's summer Obon festival, which honours the spirits of ancestors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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	Bon	Bon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Odori	Odori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Obon	Obon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	festival	Festival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	honours	honour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Bon | a calm circle dance |  | Obon  Japan's summer |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **honour** | present | Obon  Japan's summer | the spirits of ancestors |  |  |  |  | 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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:12`.

**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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