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title: my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last yea… — Respecting the festivals and tradition… · tree and pragmatics
description: my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last year". what's prob exaggerated Test 17 · ★ of lesson 309 «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 17 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

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my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last year". what's prob exaggerated

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin · **What happens:** say, set, be, exaggerate · **To what, where:** Diwali fireworks, whole street, fire, prob · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 309 «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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/309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates:t17:1
# text = my cousin says Diwali fireworks "set a whole street on fire last year". what's prob exaggerated
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	prob	prob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
20	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my cousin | Diwali fireworks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a whole street |  | fire | year |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | prob |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exaggerate** | participle |  | prob *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That Diwali has lights, like the little clay lamps people put out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates:t17:o1:1
# text = That Diwali has lights, like the little clay lamps people put out
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that Diwali | lights |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **put out** | past | people |  |  |  |  | like the little clay lamps | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That it is a festival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates:t17:o2:1
# text = That it is a festival
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That people light lamps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates:t17:o3:1
# text = That people light lamps
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	light	light	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | present | that people | lamps |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The whole street; Diwali is celebrated with lamps, sweets and fireworks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:309-respecting-festivals-of-classmates:t17:o4:1
# text = The whole street; Diwali is celebrated with lamps, sweets and fireworks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present · passive |  | Diwali |  |  |  | with lamps and sweets and fireworks | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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