Test 9 · Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking…

Why do English-speaking countries also mark Eid, Diwali and the Lunar New Year?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speaking countries · What happens: do, speak, mark · To what, where: Eid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mark	advcl
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 English	punct
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mark	nsubj
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 mark	advmod
8	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mark	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Diwali	punct
11	Diwali	Diwali	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Eid	flat
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Year	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Year	det
14	Lunar	Lunar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Year	compound
15	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Year	compound
16	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Eid	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	speaking countries not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mark	present	speaking countries	Eid and the Lunar New Year	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eid=Theme

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

Option 1

These are the countries' oldest festivals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 countries	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 countries	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countries	det
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 festivals	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 countries	case
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 festivals	amod
7	festivals	festival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						's this countries	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They were all invented in those countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 invented	advmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 countries	det
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		They		that countries		all property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

The law orders everyone to celebrate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 law	det
2	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orders	nsubj
3	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 orders	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 celebrate	mark
6	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 orders	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 celebrate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	present	the law	everyone					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	celebrate not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	them = they					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People from many backgrounds live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 backgrounds	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 backgrounds	amod
4	backgrounds	background	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	People from many backgrounds			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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