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title: Which saint's day would a family in Scotland most likely celebrate a… — The church year · tree and pragmatics
description: Which saint's day would a family in Scotland most likely celebrate as their own? Test 12 of lesson 26 «The church year» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · The church year

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Which saint's day would a family in Scotland most likely celebrate as their own?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** celebrate

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This is test 12 of lesson 26 «The church year» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:t12:1
# text = Which saint's day would a family in Scotland most likely celebrate as their own?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as their own; likely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as own=Attribute |

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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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St George's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:t12:o1:1
# text = St George's Day
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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St Andrew's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:t12:o2:1
# text = St Andrew's Day
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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St David's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:t12:o3:1
# text = St David's Day
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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St Patrick's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:t12:o4:1
# text = St Patrick's Day
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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