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title: Christmas is on 25 December and celebrates the birth of Jesus. — Festivals, holidays and traditions in the Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christmas is on 25 December and celebrates the birth of Jesus. Who acts: Christmas. 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 9

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Christmas is on 25 December and celebrates the birth of Jesus.

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**Who acts:** Christmas · **What happens:** be, celebrate · **To what, where:** 25, birth

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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 (Christmas), 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:9
# text = Christmas is on 25 December and celebrates the birth of Jesus.
# 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	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
5	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Christmas *not said here* |  |  | 25 | december |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **celebrate** | present | Christmas | the birth of Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=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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**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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