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# Exam question 1 · Being a good grown-up

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Identify the principal reason for which reliable persons restrict their undertakings to those they are able to fulfil.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, reliable persons, persons · **What happens:** identify, restrict, be, fulfil, undertake · **To what, where:** principal reason, undertakings

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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/40-being-a-good-grown-up/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which reliable persons restrict their undertakings to those they are able to fulfil.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	restrict	restrict	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	undertakings	undertaking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **restrict** | present | reliable persons | persons's undertakings |  | the principal reason |  | for the principal reason | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer undertaking=Patient to that=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | present | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fulfil** | to-infinitive | persons *= person* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **undertake** |  | persons *= person* |  |  |  |  |  | nom undertaking «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So that every promise made may in fact be kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e1:o1:1
# text = So that every promise made may in fact be kept
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | every promise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **keep** | may · passive |  | every promise |  | fact |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in fact=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So that promises need never again be made in writing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e1:o2:1
# text = So that promises need never again be made in writing
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | that promises |  | writing | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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So that others are prevented from asking favours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e1:o3:1
# text = So that others are prevented from asking favours
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | present · passive |  | others |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  | favours |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So that they are relieved of all further obligations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e1:o4:1
# text = So that they are relieved of all further obligations
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | of all further obligations; relieved *property* | tree rules |

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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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