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title: Ascertain the date upon which Independence Day is observed in the Un… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the date upon which Independence Day is observed in the United States. Exam question 1 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Exam question 1 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

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Ascertain the date upon which Independence Day is observed in the United States.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, observe · **To what, where:** date, Independence Day, United States

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the date upon which Independence Day is observed in the United States.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	Independence	Independence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |
| 2 | **observe** | present · passive |  | Independence Day |  | the United States |  | upon the date | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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11 November

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:e1:o1:1
# text = 11 November
1	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	November	November	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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25 December

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:e1:o2:1
# text = 25 December
1	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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

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4 July

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:e1:o3:1
# text = 4 July
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	July	July	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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1 July

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:e1:o4:1
# text = 1 July
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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