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title: Easter is in spring in the north, and its date changes each year bec… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Easter is in spring in the north, and its date changes each year because it follows the Moon. Who acts: Easter, date. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 10

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Easter is in spring in the north, and its date changes each year because it follows the Moon.

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**Who acts:** Easter, date · **What happens:** be, change, follow · **To what, where:** north, Moon

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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 (Easter, date), 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:10
# text = Easter is in spring in the north, and its date changes each year because it follows the Moon.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Easter |  |  | the north | in spring |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | present | north's date |  |  |  | year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | present | date | the Moon |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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