--- title: "A holiday tree" (US, official) means a Christmas tree, called by a… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "A holiday tree" (US, official) means a Christmas tree, called by a name that avoids religion. Who acts: holiday tree, name. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holiday tree, name), 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:20 # text = "A holiday tree" (US, official) means a Christmas tree, called by a name that avoids religion. # 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 `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 avoids avoid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a holiday tree | a Christmas tree | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a Christmas tree *not said here* | | | | by a name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **avoid** | present | a name | religion | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent religion=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](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: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): 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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)