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title: Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and get… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and getting ready, with Advent wreaths and calendars. Who acts: Advent, time. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The church year, sentence 6

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Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and getting ready, with Advent wreaths and calendars.

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**Who acts:** Advent, time · **What happens:** be, wait, get · **To what, where:** four weeks

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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 (Advent, time), 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:6
# text = Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and getting ready, with Advent wreaths and calendars.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Advent	advent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	calendars	calendar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Advent | the four weeks |  |  | before Christmas |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | a time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | a time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 ×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.

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