--- title: Which festival is a family reunion night second only to New Year? — Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and… · tree and pragmatics description: Which festival is a family reunion night second only to New Year? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/) / [Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/chinese-street/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays Which festival is a family reunion night second only to New Year? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** festival · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** reunion night, New Year This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the Chinese street 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/chinese-street/27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t7:1 # text = Which festival is a family reunion night second only to New Year? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 reunion reunion NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which festival | a reunion night | New Year | | | | tree rules | 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 {#o1} Duānwǔ jié, Dragon Boat Festival ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t7:o1:1 # text = Duānwǔ jié, Dragon Boat Festival 1 Duānwǔ Duānwǔ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 jié jié PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 Dragon Dragon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Boat Boat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Zhōngqiū jié, the Moon Festival ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t7:o2:1 # text = Zhōngqiū jié, the Moon Festival 1 Zhōngqiū Zhōngqiū PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 jié jié NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t7:o3:1 # text = Qīngmíng jié, Tomb-Sweeping Day 1 Qīngmíng Qīngmíng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 jié jié NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 Tomb Tomb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Sweeping Sweeping PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yuánxiāo jié, Lantern Festival ```conllu # sent_id = question:chinese-street:27-lanterns-dragon-boats-mooncakes-birthdays:t7:o4:1 # text = Yuánxiāo jié, Lantern Festival 1 Yuánxiāo Yuánxiāo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 jié jié NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Lantern Lantern PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Festival Festival PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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