--- title: A festival or holiday is a special day when people remember somethin… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: A festival or holiday is a special day when people remember something important, celebrate a season or share their beliefs. Who acts: festival, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festival, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:0 # text = A festival or holiday is a special day when people remember something important, celebrate a season or share their beliefs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 097-festivals-holidays-traditions.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 celebrate celebrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 beliefs belief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a festival or holiday | a special day | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **remember** | present | people | something | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **celebrate** | present | people *not said here* | | | | season | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **share** | present | people *not said here* | people's beliefs | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **believe** | | people | | | | | | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Laws, voting and how a country is run, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/96-laws-voting-government/22/) - next →: [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/)