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title: Some Christians enjoy Halloween, while some churches hold «light par… — Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps · tree and pragmatics
description: Some Christians enjoy Halloween, while some churches hold «light parties» instead. Who acts: Christians, churches. A sentence of the lesson «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps, sentence 16

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Some Christians enjoy Halloween, while some churches hold «light parties» instead.

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**Who acts:** Christians, churches · **What happens:** enjoy, hold · **To what, where:** Halloween, light parties

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» 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 (Christians, churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.lesson:16
# text = Some Christians enjoy Halloween, while some churches hold «light parties» instead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod
12	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
15	.	.	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 | **enjoy** | present | some Christians | Halloween |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer halloween=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | present | some churches | light parties |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=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:071-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps.lesson:16`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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