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description: my mate says some family's Christmas tree caught fire from candles and the whole house burnt. what's the true lesson? Test 20 · ★ 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
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# Test 20 · ★ · Holidays of the region

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my mate says some family's Christmas tree caught fire from candles and the whole house burnt. what's the true lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, Christmas tree · **What happens:** say, catch, burnt, be · **To what, where:** fire, candles, whole house, true lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 20 · ★ 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/#t20).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t20:1
# text = my mate says some family's Christmas tree caught fire from candles and the whole house burnt. what's the true lesson?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **catch** | past | some family's Christmas tree | fire |  | candles and the whole house |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from candle=Source |
| 3 | **burnt** | participle |  | the whole house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the true lesson |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Candles are safe on trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t20:o1:1
# text = Candles are safe on trees
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Candles |  |  | trees |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Candles and lights cause house fires; take care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t20:o2:1
# text = Candles and lights cause house fires; take care
1	Candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Candles and lights | house fires |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | Candles and lights *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Christmas trees can't burn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t20:o3:1
# text = Christmas trees can't burn
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **burn** | can | Christmas trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only real trees burn, not fake ones from the shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:265-holidays-of-the-region:t20:o4:1
# text = Only real trees burn, not fake ones from the shop
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burn	burn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | real trees | fake ones |  |  |  | from the shop | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from shop=Stimulus |

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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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