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title: Ascertain the correct orthography of the word signifying "required". — School rules, honesty and wrong accusa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the correct orthography of the word signifying "required". Exam question 4 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · School rules, honesty and wrong accusations

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Ascertain the correct orthography of the word signifying "required".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, word · **What happens:** ascertain, signify, require · **To what, where:** correct orthography · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the AI 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/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the correct orthography of the word signifying "required".
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	orthography	orthography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 correct orthography of the word |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orthography=Topic |
| 2 | **signify** | gerund | the word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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necesary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:e4:o1:1
# text = necesary
1	necesary	necesary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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neccesary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:e4:o2:1
# text = neccesary
1	neccesary	neccesary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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neccessary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:e4:o3:1
# text = neccessary
1	neccessary	neccessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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necessary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations:e4:o4:1
# text = necessary
1	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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