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title: Ben's family in Melbourne eats Christmas lunch outside at the beach.… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's family in Melbourne eats Christmas lunch outside at the beach. Why is this normal there? Test 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 opti
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# Test 1 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

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Ben's family in Melbourne eats Christmas lunch outside at the beach. Why is this normal there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, this · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** Christmas lunch, beach

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This is test 1 of lesson 97 «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben's family in Melbourne eats Christmas lunch outside at the beach.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:1
# text = Ben's family in Melbourne eats Christmas lunch outside at the beach.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Ben's family in Melbourne | Christmas lunch |  | the beach |  | outside *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |

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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 is this normal there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:2
# text = Why is this normal there?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Christmas is in July in Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:o1:1
# text = Christmas is in July in Australia
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Christmas |  |  | Australia |  | in July | tree rules |

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

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December is summer in the Southern Hemisphere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:o2:1
# text = December is summer in the Southern Hemisphere
1	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	dislocated	_	_
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	Hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	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 |  | summer |  | the Southern Hemisphere |  | December *dislocated* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Australians do not celebrate Christmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:o3:1
# text = Australians do not celebrate Christmas
1	Australians	Australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **celebrate** | present · do-support | Australians | Christmas |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It never gets cold in any part of Australia at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t1:o4:1
# text = It never gets cold in any part of Australia at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | It |  |  | any part of Australia |  | at all; cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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