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title: Every Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights), Nani (grandma, on mum's… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: Every Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights), Nani (grandma, on mum's side) sends Pooja in Leicester a box of sweets from Delhi, and Pooja sends drawings back. Who acts: Nani, Pooja. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 12

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Every Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights), Nani (grandma, on mum's side) sends Pooja in Leicester a box of sweets from Delhi, and Pooja sends drawings back.

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**Who acts:** Nani, Pooja · **What happens:** send, send back · **To what, where:** Diwali, drawings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (Nani, Pooja), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:12
# text = Every Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights), Nani (grandma, on mum's side) sends Pooja in Leicester a box of sweets from Delhi, and Pooja sends drawings back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Nani	Nani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Pooja	pooja	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Pooja	pooja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
34	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **send** | present | Nani | every Diwali |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pooja=Destination box=Theme |
| 2 | **send back** | present | Pooja | drawings |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme |

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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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:12`.

**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): 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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