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title: Pancake Day comes just before Lent, forty days of self-control; Holy… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Pancake Day comes just before Lent, forty days of self-control; Holy Week follows Jesus through Palm Sunday, the Last Supper and Good Friday, and Easter Day celebrates him rising to new life. Who acts: Pancake Day, Holy Week, Easter Day. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion eth
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# The church year, sentence 2

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Pancake Day comes just before Lent, forty days of self-control; Holy Week follows Jesus through Palm Sunday, the Last Supper and Good Friday, and Easter Day celebrates him rising to new life.

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**Who acts:** Pancake Day, Holy Week, Easter Day · **What happens:** come, follow, celebrate, rise · **To what, where:** Lent, Jesus, Palm, new life

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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 (Pancake Day, Holy Week, Easter Day), 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:2
# text = Pancake Day comes just before Lent, forty days of self-control; Holy Week follows Jesus through Palm Sunday, the Last Supper and Good Friday, and Easter Day celebrates him rising to 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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Pancake	Pancake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
15	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	16	compound	_	_
16	Week	Week	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Palm	Palm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
24	Last	Last	PROPN	NNP	_	25	compound	_	_
25	Supper	Supper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	_	25	conj	_	_
28	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | Pancake Day |  |  | Lent |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before lent=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Holy Week | Jesus |  | Palm and Supper Friday |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme through palm=Trajectory |
| 3 | **celebrate** | present | Easter Day | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | Easter Day *not said here* |  |  | new life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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