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title: Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival at… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival at the end of the harvest. Who acts: Halloween. 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 of ev
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# Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 13

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Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival at the end of the harvest.

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**Who acts:** Halloween · **What happens:** grow

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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 (Halloween), 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:13
# text = Halloween on 31 October grew from Samhain, an old Celtic festival at the end of the harvest.
# 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): no change
1	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **grow** | past | Halloween on 31 |  |  |  |  | from Samhain | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from samhain=Patient |

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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:13`.

**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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