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title: A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sy… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs. Why? Test 9 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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 9 · Seasons, terms and holidays

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A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Canadian friend · **What happens:** pull, wear · **To what, where:** togs

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This is test 9 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:1
# text = A Canadian friend pulls on her toque in January while a friend in Sydney, Australia, wears togs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	togs	tog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | a Canadian friend |  |  |  |  | in Sydney and Australia; on friend's toque in January | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on toque=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | a Canadian friend *not said here* | togs |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tog=Source |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Canada is much closer to the Sun than Australia is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:o1:1
# text = Canada is much closer to the Sun than Australia is
1	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Canada |  |  |  |  | to the Sun; than Australia; close *property* | tree rules |

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

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It is winter in Canada and summer in Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:o2:1
# text = It is winter in Canada and summer in Australia
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | winter and summer |  | Canada |  | in Australia | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is winter in both countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:o3:1
# text = It is winter in both countries
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | winter |  | both countries |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is summer in both countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:t9:o4:1
# text = It is summer in both countries
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | summer |  | both countries |  |  | tree rules |

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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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