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title: Zac: «Gotcha day! pizza time!!» What are they celebrating? — Adoption · tree and pragmatics
description: Zac: «Gotcha day! pizza time!!» What are they celebrating? Test 7 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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 7 · Adoption

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Zac: «Gotcha day! pizza time!!» What are they celebrating?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** celebrate

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This is test 7 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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/522-adoption/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zac: «Gotcha day! pizza time!!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:1
# text = Zac: «Gotcha day! pizza time!!»
1	Zac	Zac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Gotcha	Gotcha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
7	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What are they celebrating?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:2
# text = What are they celebrating?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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 | **celebrate** | present · progressive | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The day his adoption became official

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:o1:1
# text = The day his adoption became official
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | his adoption |  |  |  | day | official *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **adopt** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The end of the school term

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:o2:1
# text = The end of the school term
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The day he first caught a fish at the lake with Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:o3:1
# text = The day he first caught a fish at the lake with Dad
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | he | a fish |  | the lake with Dad | day | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme at lake=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His birthday, the day he was born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:522-adoption:t7:o4:1
# text = His birthday, the day he was born
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | he |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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