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title: Her friends do not wave snacks in her face or tease her; they ask wh… — Respecting the festivals and traditions of class… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her friends do not wave snacks in her face or tease her; they ask what the fast means to her, and at Eid they wish her a happy festival. Who acts: friends, fast. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates, sentence 5

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Her friends do not wave snacks in her face or tease her; they ask what the fast means to her, and at Eid they wish her a happy festival.

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**Who acts:** friends, fast · **What happens:** not wave, tease, ask, mean, wish · **To what, where:** snacks, Ramadan, happy festival, Eid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friends, fast), 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:5
# text = Her friends do not wave snacks in her face or tease her; they ask what the fast means to her, and at Eid they wish her a happy festival.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wave	wave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wave** | present · do-support | Ramadan's friends | snacks |  |  |  | in Ramadan's face | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent snack=Patient in face=Theme |
| 2 | **tease** | infinitive | Ramadan's friends *not said here* | Ramadan |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the fast |  | Ramadan |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme to she=Attribute |
| 5 | **wish** | present | friends *= friend* | a happy festival | Ramadan | Eid |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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