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description: What explicit reason does Miss Meadows give for requiring a flag of truce? Exam question 4 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at…

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What explicit reason does Miss Meadows give for requiring a flag of truce?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** explicit reason, Miss Meadows · **What happens:** do, give, require · **To what, where:** flag

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 582 «Uncle Remus, Terrapin Shows His Strength, part 1: a bet at the candy-pulling and a tug-of-war» of the books 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/books/582-pg2306-part18/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e4:1
# text = What explicit reason does Miss Meadows give for requiring a flag of truce?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	explicit	explicit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	truce	truce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what explicit reason |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | Miss Meadows |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **require** | gerund | Miss Meadows *not said here* | a flag of truce |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flag=Precondition |

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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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to keep the peace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e4:o1:1
# text = to keep the peace
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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because the dogs must not come inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e4:o2:1
# text = because the dogs must not come inside
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | must | the dogs |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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that the guests shall keep the peace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e4:o3:1
# text = that the guests shall keep the peace
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | shall | the guests | the peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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for safety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:582-pg2306-part18:e4:o4:1
# text = for safety
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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