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title: Christmas is on 25 December, but many Orthodox churches celebrate it… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas is on 25 December, but many Orthodox churches celebrate it on 7 January because they use an older calendar. Who acts: Christmas, many Orthodox churches, churches. 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 7

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Christmas is on 25 December, but many Orthodox churches celebrate it on 7 January because they use an older calendar.

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**Who acts:** Christmas, many Orthodox churches, churches · **What happens:** be, celebrate, use · **To what, where:** 25, story, 7, older calendar

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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 (Christmas, many Orthodox churches, churches), 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:7
# text = Christmas is on 25 December, but many Orthodox churches celebrate it on 7 January because they use an older calendar.
# 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): no change
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
15	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  | 25 | december |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | present | many Orthodox churches | story |  | 7  January |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present | churches *= church* | a older calendar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calendar=Patient |

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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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