--- title: Identify the practice whereby a speaker adjusts vocabulary and forma… — Spoken language: presenting and show-a… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the practice whereby a speaker adjusts vocabulary and formality to suit a particular audience. Exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Spoken language: presenting and show-a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell Identify the practice whereby a speaker adjusts vocabulary and formality to suit a particular audience. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, speaker · **What happens:** identify, adjust, suit · **To what, where:** practice, vocabulary, particular audience This is exam question 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» of the English 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/english/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e1:1 # text = Identify the practice whereby a speaker adjusts vocabulary and formality to suit a particular audience. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 adjusts adjust VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 vocabulary vocabulary NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 formality formality NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 suit suit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the practice | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | | 2 | **adjust** | present | a speaker | vocabulary and formality | | | | whereby *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vocabulary=Patient | | 3 | **suit** | to-infinitive | a speaker *not said here* | a particular audience | | | | | tree rules | 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} Rebuttal ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e1:o1:1 # text = Rebuttal 1 Rebuttal rebuttal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Alliteration ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e1:o2:1 # text = Alliteration 1 Alliteration alliteration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Projection ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e1:o3:1 # text = Projection 1 Projection projection NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Register ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e1:o4:1 # text = Register 1 Register register NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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