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title: A family in Toronto and a family in Chicago both celebrate Thanksgiv… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in… · tree and pragmatics
description: A family in Toronto and a family in Chicago both celebrate Thanksgiving. Which is true? Test 2 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; Mov
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# Test 2 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

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A family in Toronto and a family in Chicago both celebrate Thanksgiving. Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** celebrate, be · **To what, where:** Thanksgiving

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family in Toronto and a family in Chicago both celebrate Thanksgiving.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:1
# text = A family in Toronto and a family in Chicago both celebrate Thanksgiving.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | a family in Toronto and a family in Chicago | Thanksgiving |  |  |  | both *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Theme |

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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:* Which is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:2
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	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 |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both celebrate on exactly the same day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:o1:1
# text = Both celebrate on exactly the same day
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | Both |  |  |  | day |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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The Canadian family celebrates it about six weeks earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:o2:1
# text = The Canadian family celebrates it about six weeks earlier
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | the Canadian family | it |  |  |  | early *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The American family celebrates it in October

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:o3:1
# text = The American family celebrates it in October
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	celebrates	celebrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | present | the American family | it |  |  | october |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only the American family has Thanksgiving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t2:o4:1
# text = Only the American family has Thanksgiving
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Thanksgiving	Thanksgiving	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the American family | Thanksgiving |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Patient |

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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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