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title: In 2023 the state Christmas holiday became 25 December, though some… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2023 the state Christmas holiday became 25 December, though some families and churches still keep 7 January, and many still enjoy the "Old New Year" on 14 January. Who acts: state Christmas holiday, families, many. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish ca
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 8

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In 2023 the state Christmas holiday became 25 December, though some families and churches still keep 7 January, and many still enjoy the "Old New Year" on 14 January.

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**Who acts:** state Christmas holiday, families, many · **What happens:** become, keep, enjoy · **To what, where:** 2023, Old New Year

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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 (state Christmas holiday, families, many), 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:8
# text = In 2023 the state Christmas holiday became 25 December, though some families and churches still keep 7 January, and many still enjoy the "Old New Year" on 14 January.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2023	2023	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **become** | past | the state Christmas holiday |  |  |  | december | in 2023 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 2023=Result |
| 2 | **keep** | present | some families and churches |  |  |  | still; january |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enjoy** | present | many | the Old New Year |  |  | still; january |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer year=Stimulus |

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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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**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. **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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