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description: Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "sent down" as employed in respect of a convicted person. Exam question 3 of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 3 · Police, courts and prison

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Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "sent down" as employed in respect of a convicted person.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, most · **What happens:** select, characteris, send down, employ, convict, respect · **To what, where:** response, expression, respect, convicted person

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:e3:1
# text = Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "sent down" as employed in respect of a convicted person.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	convicted	convict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present | most | the expression |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send down** *in a quote* | participle |  | the expression *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **employ** | participle |  |  |  | respect of a convicted person |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **convict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **respect** |  |  | a convicted person |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Relocated to a lower floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:e3:o1:1
# text = Relocated to a lower floor
1	Relocated	relocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relocate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to a lower floor | tree rules |

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

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Committed to prison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:e3:o2:1
# text = Committed to prison
1	Committed	committed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Demoted in employment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:e3:o3:1
# text = Demoted in employment
1	Demoted	demote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demote** | participle |  |  |  | employment |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Released without charge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:30-police-courts-and-prison:e3:o4:1
# text = Released without charge
1	Released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | without charge | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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