--- title: "Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids nami… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas. Who acts: Happy holidays, seasonal greeting. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: religion a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 19 "Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas. **Who acts:** Happy holidays, seasonal greeting · **What happens:** be, avoid, name · **To what, where:** seasonal greeting, Christmas This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms 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 (Happy holidays, seasonal greeting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:19 # text = "Happy holidays" (mostly US) is a seasonal greeting that avoids naming Christmas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 032-religion-fate-failure.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 seasonal seasonal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 avoids avoid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 naming name VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Happy holidays | a seasonal greeting | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **avoid** | present | a seasonal greeting | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **name** | gerund | a seasonal greeting *not said here* | Christmas | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme | 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](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:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:19`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)