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title: It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assi… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fai… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals. Determine which conception of fairness is applied. Exam question 4 of lesson 33 «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness

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It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals. Determine which conception of fairness is applied.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** younger sibling, you · **What happens:** give, injure, receive, determine, apply, conceive · **To what, where:** It, assistance, meals, conception, fairness

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 33 «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/#e4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:1
# text = It is given that a younger sibling with an injured arm receives assistance at meals.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **injure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **receive** | present | a younger sibling with a injured arm | assistance |  | meals |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme at meal=Location |

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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:* Determine which conception of fairness is applied.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:2
# text = Determine which conception of fairness is applied.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **apply** | present · passive |  | which conception of fairness |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **conceive** |  |  | fairness |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fairness according to age alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:o1:1
# text = Fairness according to age alone
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	according	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	age	age	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund | Fairness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **age** | to-infinitive | Fairness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Fairness according to need

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:o2:1
# text = Fairness according to need
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	according	accord	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund | Fairness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | to-infinitive | Fairness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Identical treatment of every person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:o3:1
# text = Identical treatment of every person
1	Identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** |  |  | every person |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fairness determined by the loudest complaint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness:e4:o4:1
# text = Fairness determined by the loudest complaint
1	Fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | participle |  | Fairness *not said here* |  |  |  | by the loudest complaint | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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