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title: The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days short… — Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days shorter than the sun's year, so Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr move earlier each year and can fall in any season. Who acts: Islamic calendar, Ramadan. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 
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# Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★, sentence 15

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The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days shorter than the sun's year, so Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr move earlier each year and can fall in any season.

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**Who acts:** Islamic calendar, Ramadan · **What happens:** follow, be, move, fall · **To what, where:** moon

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» of the religion ethics 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 (Islamic calendar, Ramadan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.lesson:15
# text = The Islamic calendar follows the moon and is about eleven days shorter than the sun's year, so Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr move earlier each year and can fall in any season.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:unmarked
12	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
20	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Fitr	Fitr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
26	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **follow** | present | the Islamic calendar | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Islamic calendar *not said here* |  |  |  | day; year | short *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | infinitive | Ramadan and Eid |  |  |  | year | early *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | can | Ramadan and Eid *not said here* |  |  |  | season |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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**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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