--- title: Some holidays come from religion: Christmas celebrates the birth of… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Some holidays come from religion: Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, and Easter remembers Jesus coming back to life. Who acts: holidays, Christmas, Easter, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» of the world course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/) / 2 # Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 2 Some holidays come from religion: Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, and Easter remembers Jesus coming back to life. **Who acts:** holidays, Christmas, Easter, Jesus · **What happens:** come, celebrate, remember, come back · **To what, where:** religion, birth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (holidays, Christmas, Easter, Jesus), 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:2 # text = Some holidays come from religion: Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, and Easter remembers Jesus coming back to life. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 celebrates celebrate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Easter Easter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 ccomp _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | some holidays | | | religion | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from religion=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **celebrate** | present | Christmas | the birth of Jesus | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | present | Easter | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **come back** | gerund | Jesus | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/1/) - next →: [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/)