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title: that St. John's night thing, is it like a holiday? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: that St. John's night thing, is it like a holiday? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 13 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

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that St. John's night thing, is it like a holiday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** night thing · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1490-pg503-part77/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t13:1
# text = that St. John's night thing, is it like a holiday?
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
2	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that night thing |  |  |  |  | like a holiday | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the midsummer night in June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t13:o1:1
# text = yeah, the midsummer night in June
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the midsummer night in June, a big old church holiday across Europe

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t13:o2:1
# text = yeah, the midsummer night in June, a big old church holiday across Europe
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the midsummer night in June, when the farmers celebrate their crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t13:o3:1
# text = yeah, the midsummer night in June, when the farmers celebrate their crops
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | the farmers | farmers's crops |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, a spring feast in early May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t13:o4:1
# text = yeah, a spring feast in early May
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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