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title: Easter Day is the greatest Christian festival, celebrating Jesus ris… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Easter Day is the greatest Christian festival, celebrating Jesus rising from the dead; eggs are a sign of new life. Who acts: Easter Day, greatest Christian festival, eggs. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# The church year, sentence 14

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Easter Day is the greatest Christian festival, celebrating Jesus rising from the dead; eggs are a sign of new life.

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**Who acts:** Easter Day, greatest Christian festival, eggs · **What happens:** be, celebrate, rise · **To what, where:** greatest Christian festival, Jesus, dead, sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (Easter Day, greatest Christian festival, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:026-the-church-year.lesson:14
# text = Easter Day is the greatest Christian festival, celebrating Jesus rising from the dead; eggs are a sign of new life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 026-the-church-year.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
10	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **is a** | present | Easter Day | the greatest Christian festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | gerund | the greatest Christian festival *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the greatest Christian festival *not said here* |  |  | the dead |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dead=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | eggs | a sign |  |  |  | of new life | 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:religion-ethics:026-the-church-year.lesson:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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