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description: Select the response most consistent with recommended practice in respect of the employment of cue cards. Exam question 2 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 op
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# Exam question 2 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

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Select the response most consistent with recommended practice in respect of the employment of cue cards.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, recommend, respect, employ · **To what, where:** response, employment, cue cards

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e2:1
# text = Select the response most consistent with recommended practice in respect of the employment of cue cards.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	cue	cue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | the employment of cue cards |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **employ** |  |  | cue cards |  |  |  |  | nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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They should bear the full text verbatim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e2:o1:1
# text = They should bear the full text verbatim
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	verbatim	verbatim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | should | They | the full text verbatim |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verbatim=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They should be concealed and never consulted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e2:o2:1
# text = They should be concealed and never consulted
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | should · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **consult** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They should be read with the head lowered

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e2:o3:1
# text = They should be read with the head lowered
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | should · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **lower** | past | the head |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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

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They should bear key words only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:e2:o4:1
# text = They should bear key words only
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | should | They | key words |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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