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title: christmas in sydney is it snowy or what — The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and… · tree and pragmatics
description: christmas in sydney is it snowy or what Test 10 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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 10 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

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christmas in sydney is it snowy or what

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** christmas · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t10:1
# text = christmas in sydney is it snowy or what
1	christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sydney	sydney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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Yes, December is winter there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, December is winter there
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it snows there every single Christmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t10:o2:1
# text = Yes, it snows there every single Christmas
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	snows	snow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snow** | present | it | every single Christmas |  | there |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is summer there in December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t10:o3:1
# text = No, it is summer there in December
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  | december; summer | there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is spring there in December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz:t10:o4:1
# text = It is spring there in December
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	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	December	December	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 | spring |  | there | december |  | 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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