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title: Why must Christmas lights be kept away from curtains? — Holidays of the region · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must Christmas lights be kept away from curtains? Test 16 · ★ 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.
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# Test 16 · ★ · Holidays of the region

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Why must Christmas lights be kept away from curtains?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** keep away · **To what, where:** Christmas lights, curtains

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This is test 16 · ★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t16:1
# text = Why must Christmas lights be kept away from curtains?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | must · passive |  | Christmas lights |  | curtains |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from curtain=Eventuality |

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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}

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They can heat up and start a fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t16:o1:1
# text = They can heat up and start a fire
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heat	heat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat up** | can | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | They *not said here* | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes them flicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t16:o2:1
# text = It makes them flicker
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	flicker	flicker	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flicker** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lights stick to curtains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t16:o3:1
# text = Lights stick to curtains
1	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present | Lights |  |  |  |  | to curtains | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to curtain=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Curtains block the light from outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t16:o4:1
# text = Curtains block the light from outside
1	Curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	block	block	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | present | Curtains | the light |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer light=Beneficiary from outside=Eventuality |

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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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