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title: The Islamic calendar follows only the Moon, so Ramadan, the month of… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Islamic calendar follows only the Moon, so Ramadan, the month of fasting, comes about 11 days earlier each year and travels through every season in about 33 years: one summer with long fasting days, years later a winter with short ones. Who acts: Islamic calendar, Ramadan. A sentence of the less
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 3

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The Islamic calendar follows only the Moon, so Ramadan, the month of fasting, comes about 11 days earlier each year and travels through every season in about 33 years: one summer with long fasting days, years later a winter with short ones.

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**Who acts:** Islamic calendar, Ramadan · **What happens:** follow, come about, travel · **To what, where:** Moon

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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 calendar, 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:3
# text = The Islamic calendar follows only the Moon, so Ramadan, the month of fasting, comes about 11 days earlier each year and travels through every season in about 33 years: one summer with long fasting days, years later a winter with short ones.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Islamic	Islamic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
10	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	fasting	fasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **follow** | present | the Islamic calendar | the Moon |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
| 2 | **come about** | present | Ramadan |  |  |  | summer | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | present | Ramadan *not said here* |  |  |  | season; year |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:world:117-other-calendars.lesson:3`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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