---
title: Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Ja… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics
description: Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with lamps, sweets and fireworks. Who acts: Diwali. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Respecting the festivals and tradition…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/) / 10

# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with lamps, sweets and fireworks.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Diwali · **What happens:** be, celebrate · **To what, where:** festival

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday 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 (Diwali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:10
# text = Diwali is the festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with lamps, sweets and fireworks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Sikhs	Sikh	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Jains	Jain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Diwali | the festival |  |  |  | of lights | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle |  | the festival *not said here* |  |  |  | by Hindus and Sikhs and Jains; with lamps and sweets and fireworks | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.lesson:10`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Respecting the festivals and tradition…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/8/)
- next →: [Respecting the festivals and tradition…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/)