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title: A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January. What's w… — Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Isl… · tree and pragmatics
description: A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January. What's wrong? Test 11 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 11 · Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish cale…

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A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** video game · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** Year fireworks

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This is test 11 of lesson 117 «Other calendars: Chinese New Year, Islamic and Jewish calendars, and Christmas in Ukraine» 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/117-other-calendars/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:1
# text = A video game shows Chinese New Year fireworks on 1 January.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a video game | Year fireworks |  |  |  | on 1 January | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent firework=Recipient |

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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:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Chinese New Year has no fireworks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:o1:1
# text = Chinese New Year has no fireworks
1	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Chinese New Year | no fireworks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, Chinese New Year is always on 1 January everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:o2:1
# text = Nothing, Chinese New Year is always on 1 January everywhere
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Chinese New Year |  |  |  |  | on 1 January; always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chinese New Year is in high summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:o3:1
# text = Chinese New Year is in high summer
1	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	summer	summer	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** | present | Chinese New Year |  |  |  |  | in high summer | tree rules |

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

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Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:117-other-calendars:t11:o4:1
# text = Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February
1	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
10	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Chinese New Year |  |  | 21  January |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between 21=Location |

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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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