--- title: On Halloween, 31 October, children go trick-or-treating with an adul… — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics description: On Halloween, 31 October, children go trick-or-treating with an adult, because it is dark and there is traffic, and visit only houses with their lights on. Who acts: children, it, traffic, houses. 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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 (children, it, traffic, houses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:5 # text = On Halloween, 31 October, children go trick-or-treating with an adult, because it is dark and there is traffic, and visit only houses with their lights on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 265-holidays-of-the-region.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Halloween Halloween PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 31 31 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ 5 October October PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 treating treat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 24 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | children | trick | | Halloween | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme | | 2 | **treat** | gerund | | | | | | with a adult | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with adult=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | it | | | | | dark *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | present | traffic | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **visit** | present | children *not said here* | houses | | | | with houses's lights | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent | | 6 | **light** | | houses *= house* | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region.lesson:5`. **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): 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: [Holidays of the region, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/4/) - next →: [Holidays of the region, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/)