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title: New Year can be in winter, spring or autumn: Nowruz, the Persian New… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and J… · tree and pragmatics
description: New Year can be in winter, spring or autumn: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, comes on the first day of spring, about 20 or 21 March, and Ethiopian New Year in September. Who acts: New Year, Nowruz. A sentence of the lesson «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas
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# Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine, sentence 9

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New Year can be in winter, spring or autumn: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, comes on the first day of spring, about 20 or 21 March, and Ethiopian New Year in September.

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**Who acts:** New Year, Nowruz · **What happens:** be, come

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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 (New Year, Nowruz), 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:9
# text = New Year can be in winter, spring or autumn: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, comes on the first day of spring, about 20 or 21 March, and Ethiopian New Year in September.
# 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): no change
1	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Nowruz	Nowruz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	Ethiopian	Ethiopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | can | New Year |  |  |  |  | in winter and spring or autumn | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | Nowruz and Ethiopian New Year in September |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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