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title: Why might a Native American family feel differently about Thanksgivi… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a Native American family feel differently about Thanksgiving than other families? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» of the history 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 3 · ★★ · The United States: a short story

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Why might a Native American family feel differently about Thanksgiving than other families?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Native American family · **What happens:** feel

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» of the history 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/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t3:1
# text = Why might a Native American family feel differently about Thanksgiving than other families?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | might | a Native American family |  |  |  |  | about Thanksgiving; than other families; differently *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about thanksgiving=Location |

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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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Thanksgiving is a Native war day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t3:o1:1
# text = Thanksgiving is a Native war day
1	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	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 | Thanksgiving | a Native war day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They have never heard of it, because it is only held in the big cities

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t3:o2:1
# text = They have never heard of it, because it is only held in the big cities
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | present · perfect · passive |  | They |  |  |  | of it | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | present · passive |  | it |  | the big cities |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in city=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is their only holiday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t3:o3:1
# text = It is their only holiday
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	holiday	holiday	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 | It | their only holiday |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
For many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t3:o4:1
# text = For many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a day |  |  |  | for many Native people; of mourning for a day | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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