--- title: Which holiday is older than the English-speaking countries themselves? — Festivals, holidays and traditions in… · tree and pragmatics description: Which holiday is older than the English-speaking countries themselves? Test 4 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; Mova's choice was wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Festivals, holidays and traditions in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/97-festivals-holidays-traditions/) / t4 # Test 4 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking… Which holiday is older than the English-speaking countries themselves? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** holiday · **What happens:** be, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t4:1 # text = Which holiday is older than the English-speaking countries themselves? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | which holiday | | | | | than the speaking countries countries; old *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Independence Day, from the year 1776 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t4:o1:1 # text = Independence Day, from the year 1776 1 Independence Independence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 1776 1776 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Australia Day, from the year 1788 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t4:o2:1 # text = Australia Day, from the year 1788 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 1788 1788 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Halloween, from the Celtic festival of Samhain ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t4:o3:1 # text = Halloween, from the Celtic festival of Samhain 1 Halloween Halloween PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 festival festival NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Samhain Samhain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Canada Day, from the year 1867 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t4:o4:1 # text = Canada Day, from the year 1867 1 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 1867 1867 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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