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description: Ascertain the emotions most commonly experienced by a parent upon the departure of an adult child for employment in a distant city. Exam question 4 of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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 4 · Being a good grown-up

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Ascertain the emotions most commonly experienced by a parent upon the departure of an adult child for employment in a distant city.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, adult child · **What happens:** ascertain, experience, depart · **To what, where:** emotions

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the emotions most commonly experienced by a parent upon the departure of an adult child for employment in a distant city.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	emotions	emotion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the emotions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Topic |
| 2 | **experience** | participle |  | the emotions *not said here* |  |  |  | by a parent; upon the departure of a adult child for employment in a distant city; commonly *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **depart** |  | a adult child for employment in a distant city |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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Relief and indifference simultaneously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e4:o1:1
# text = Relief and indifference simultaneously
1	Relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	indifference	indifference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Pride and sadness simultaneously

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e4:o2:1
# text = Pride and sadness simultaneously
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	simultaneously	simultaneously	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fear and guilt exclusively

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e4:o3:1
# text = Fear and guilt exclusively
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Anger and resentment exclusively

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:e4:o4:1
# text = Anger and resentment exclusively
1	Anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	resentment	resentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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