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title: Many holidays have traditions — things people do the same way every… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many holidays have traditions — things people do the same way every year, like special food, songs or decorations. Who acts: Many holidays, people. A sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 1

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Many holidays have traditions — things people do the same way every year, like special food, songs or decorations.

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**Who acts:** Many holidays, people · **What happens:** have, do · **To what, where:** traditions, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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 (Many holidays, 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:1
# text = Many holidays have traditions — things people do the same way every year, like special food, songs or decorations.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	decorations	decoration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many holidays | traditions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | people | things |  |  | year | like special food and songs or decorations; the same way *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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