--- title: A girl in Canada asked her Hindu friend about Diwali; she was invite… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Canada asked her Hindu friend about Diwali; she was invited to share the sweets and the lamps, and they became better friends. Who acts: girl, sweets. 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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 (girl, sweets), 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:19 # text = A girl in Canada asked her Hindu friend about Diwali; she was invited to share the sweets and the lamps, and they became better friends. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Hindu hindu ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Diwali Diwali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 share share VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a girl in Canada | | girl's Hindu friend | | | about Diwali | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient about diwali=Topic | | 2 | **invite** | past · passive | | girl | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **share** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | the sweets and the lamps | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | past | sweets *= sweet* | better friends | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates.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): 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: [Respecting the festivals and tradition…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/18/) - next →: [Respecting the festivals and tradition…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/)