--- title: why's everyone wearing red poppies today — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics description: why's everyone wearing red poppies today Test 14 · ★ of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» of the everyday 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/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/t14/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Holidays of the region](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Holidays of the region why's everyone wearing red poppies today **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** red poppies This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 265 «Holidays of the region» of the everyday 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/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t14:1 # text = why's everyone wearing red poppies today 1 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 poppies poppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present · progressive | everyone | red poppies | | | today | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent poppy=Source | 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} It's a flower festival ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t14:o1:1 # text = It's a flower festival 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | It | a flower festival | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} To welcome the spring and the first flowers of the year ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t14:o2:1 # text = To welcome the spring and the first flowers of the year 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 welcome welcome VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | | | | | spring | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Because red is lucky in November ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t14:o3:1 # text = Because red is lucky in November 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 red red NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | red | | | | november | lucky *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} To remember people who died in wars ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t14:o4:1 # text = To remember people who died in wars 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 remember remember VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 2 | **die** | past | people | | | | | in wars | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute | **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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