--- title: A birthday marks the day a person was born; some groups, such as Jeh… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A birthday marks the day a person was born; some groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, choose not to celebrate birthdays, and that choice is respected. Who acts: birthday, day, groups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, day, groups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:14 # text = A birthday marks the day a person was born; some groups, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, choose not to celebrate birthdays, and that choice is respected. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 marks mark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 18 case _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 Jehovah Jehovah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 Witnesses witness PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 respected respected VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present | a birthday | | | | day | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **choose** | infinitive | some groups such Jehovah's Witnesses | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **celebrate** | to-infinitive | some groups such Jehovah's Witnesses *not said here* | birthdays | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | | 5 | **respected** | present · passive | | that choice | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): 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. 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