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title: An Islamic month begins when the thin new crescent moon is seen, or… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: An Islamic month begins when the thin new crescent moon is seen, or by calculation, so Eid (the festival at the end of Ramadan) can fall a day apart in different places. Who acts: Islamic month, Eid. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Chris
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 15

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An Islamic month begins when the thin new crescent moon is seen, or by calculation, so Eid (the festival at the end of Ramadan) can fall a day apart in different places.

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**Who acts:** Islamic month, Eid · **What happens:** begin, see, fall · **To what, where:** thin new crescent moon, different places

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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 (Islamic month, Eid), 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:15
# text = An Islamic month begins when the thin new crescent moon is seen, or by calculation, so Eid (the festival at the end of Ramadan) can fall a day apart in different places.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	crescent	crescent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	calculation	calculation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
19	Eid	Eid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **begin** | present | a Islamic month |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | present · passive |  | the thin new crescent moon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall** | can | Eid |  |  | different places |  | apart *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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:15`.

**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, 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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