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title: Ramadan, when many Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, starts about 11… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ramadan, when many Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, starts about 11 days earlier each year on our calendar. Who acts: many Muslims, Ramadan. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the world course of Mova's primary sch
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 14

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Ramadan, when many Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, starts about 11 days earlier each year on our calendar.

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**Who acts:** many Muslims, Ramadan · **What happens:** fast, start · **To what, where:** calendar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the world 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 (many Muslims, Ramadan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:14
# text = Ramadan, when many Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, starts about 11 days earlier each year on our calendar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 117-other-calendars.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	fast	fast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **fast** | present | many Muslims |  |  |  | dawn |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present | Ramadan |  |  | our calendar | year | early *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:world:117-other-calendars.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): R5-strong ×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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