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title: Diwali is the festival of lights in autumn, celebrating good over ev… — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: Diwali is the festival of lights in autumn, celebrating good over evil; Hindus, Sikhs and Jains (followers of another old Indian religion) celebrate it. Who acts: Diwali, Hindus. A sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Hinduism and Sikhism, sentence 10

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Diwali is the festival of lights in autumn, celebrating good over evil; Hindus, Sikhs and Jains (followers of another old Indian religion) celebrate it.

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**Who acts:** Diwali, Hindus · **What happens:** be, celebrate · **To what, where:** festival, good, evil, light

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hinduism and Sikhism» 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 (Diwali, Hindus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:032-hinduism-and-sikhism.lesson:10
# text = Diwali is the festival of lights in autumn, celebrating good over evil; Hindus, Sikhs and Jains (followers of another old Indian religion) celebrate it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 032-hinduism-and-sikhism.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sikhs	Sikh	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Jains	jain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
28	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28: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 a** | present | Diwali | the festival |  |  |  | of lights in autumn | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | gerund | Diwali *not said here* | good |  | evil |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme |
| 3 | **celebrate** | present | Hindus and Sikhs and Jains | light |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:032-hinduism-and-sikhism.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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