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description: Identify the party to whom the disclosure of the cause of a person's death properly belongs. Exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 1 · Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories

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Identify the party to whom the disclosure of the cause of a person's death properly belongs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, disclosure, person · **What happens:** identify, belong, disclose, cause, die · **To what, where:** party, cause, death

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Famous people are people: privacy, scams and kind stories» 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/48-famous-people-are-people/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:48-famous-people-are-people:e1:1
# text = Identify the party to whom the disclosure of the cause of a person's death properly belongs.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 party |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent party=Theme to whom=be' |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the disclosure of the cause of a person's death |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **disclose** |  |  | the cause of a person's death |  |  |  |  | nom disclosure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | a person's death |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **die** |  | a person |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 {#o1}

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The operators of internet forums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:48-famous-people-are-people:e1:o1:1
# text = The operators of internet forums
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	operators	operator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	forums	forum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Any person present at the funeral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:48-famous-people-are-people:e1:o2:1
# text = Any person present at the funeral
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The readers of popular newspapers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:48-famous-people-are-people:e1:o3:1
# text = The readers of popular newspapers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The family of the deceased

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:48-famous-people-are-people:e1:o4:1
# text = The family of the deceased
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decease** | participle |  | the family *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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