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title: A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on… — Soft words for hard things: religion a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December." What will be lit? Test 9 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 9 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

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A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December." What will be lit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** press release · **What happens:** lit · **To what, where:** holiday tree, 1

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This is test 9 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:1
# text = A council press release: "This year the holiday tree will be lit on 1 December."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** *in a quote* | future · passive | a press release *not said here* | the holiday tree |  | 1  December | year |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What will be lit?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:2
# text = What will be lit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | future · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A palm tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:o1:1
# text = A palm tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bonfire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:o2:1
# text = A bonfire
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A Christmas tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:o3:1
# text = A Christmas tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A tree for the summer holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t9:o4:1
# text = A tree for the summer holiday
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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