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title: Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neig… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neighbours. Who acts: us. 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 every clause.
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# Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 7

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Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neighbours.

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**Who acts:** us · **What happens:** learn, help, understand · **To what, where:** festivals, us, neighbours

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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 (us), 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:7
# text = Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neighbours.
# 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	Learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
7	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **learn** | gerund |  | other people's festivals |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | present |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **understand** | infinitive | us *not said here* | our neighbours |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |

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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:7`.

**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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