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title: Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which… — Days of the week, the clock, birthdays · tree and pragmatics
description: Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year. Who acts: grandparents, lunar calendar. A sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Days of the week, the clock, birthdays, sentence 15

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Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.

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**Who acts:** grandparents, lunar calendar · **What happens:** count, fall · **To what, where:** birthdays, different Western date

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Days of the week, the clock, birthdays» of the chinese street 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 (grandparents, lunar calendar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:15
# text = Some grandparents also count birthdays by the lunar calendar, which falls on a different Western date each year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lunar	lunar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **count** | present | some grandparents | birthdays |  |  |  | by the lunar calendar | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | present | the lunar calendar |  |  | a different Western date | year |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on date=Location |

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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:chinese-street:022-days-the-clock-and-birthdays.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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