--- title: Some families do not celebrate birthdays for religious reasons; expl… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics description: Some families do not celebrate birthdays for religious reasons; explaining calmly helps most friends understand. Who acts: families, explaining, most friends. A sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/12/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [When nobody sits with you: making frie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/23-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again/) / 12 # When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 12 Some families do not celebrate birthdays for religious reasons; explaining calmly helps most friends understand. **Who acts:** families, explaining, most friends · **What happens:** not celebrate, explain, help, understand · **To what, where:** birthdays This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflection 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 (families, explaining, most friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:12 # text = Some families do not celebrate birthdays for religious reasons; explaining calmly helps most friends understand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 families family 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 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 explaining explain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 12 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 . . 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 | **not** **celebrate** | present · do-support | some families | birthdays | | | | for religious reasons | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme for reason=Attribute | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | calmly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | explaining | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **understand** | present | most friends | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.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): 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. 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