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title: Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn. Which… — Festivals, holidays and traditions in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn. Which festival is it most likely to be? Test 5 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 e
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# Test 5 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

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Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn. Which festival is it most likely to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Priya, festival · **What happens:** light, be · **To what, where:** lamps, home

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:1
# text = Priya lights lamps at home for a festival of lights in autumn.
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | present | Priya | lamps |  | home |  | for a festival of lights in autumn | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lamp=Product for festival=Beneficiary |

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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 festival is it most likely to be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:2
# text = Which festival is it most likely to be?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which festival |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | to-infinitive | which festival *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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St Patrick's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:o1:1
# text = St Patrick's Day
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Anzac Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:o2:1
# text = Anzac Day
1	Anzac	Anzac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Diwali

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:o3:1
# text = Diwali
1	Diwali	Diwali	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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Easter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:97-festivals-holidays-traditions:t5:o4:1
# text = Easter
1	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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