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title: Christians call Easter the most important Christian festival. — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians call Easter the most important Christian festival. Who acts: Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Easter and Pentecost» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Easter and Pentecost, sentence 8

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Christians call Easter the most important Christian festival.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Easter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Easter and Pentecost» 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 (Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:019-easter-and-pentecost.lesson:8
# text = Christians call Easter the most important Christian festival.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 019-easter-and-pentecost.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): no change
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **call** | present | Christians |  | Easter |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent easter=Recipient |

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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): no change. **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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