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title: Pursuant to encountering upsetting material online, ascertain the ap… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to encountering upsetting material online, ascertain the appropriate course of action. Exam question 4 of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 4 · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences

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Pursuant to encountering upsetting material online, ascertain the appropriate course of action.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** encounter, ascertain · **To what, where:** upsetting material, appropriate course

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday 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/everyday/103-screens-fairness-and-differences/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:e4:1
# text = Pursuant to encountering upsetting material online, ascertain the appropriate course of action.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	encountering	encounter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | gerund |  | upsetting material |  |  |  | online, pursuant *property* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer material=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ascertain** | infinitive |  | the appropriate course of action |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Topic |

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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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Continue viewing it in order to understand it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:e4:o1:1
# text = Continue viewing it in order to understand it
1	Continue	continue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	viewing	view	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	7	mark	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	fixed	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **view** | gerund | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **understand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | order |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Close the material and inform a trusted adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:e4:o2:1
# text = Close the material and inform a trusted adult
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	inform	inform	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | the material |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Remain silent so as not to lose access to the device

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:e4:o3:1
# text = Remain silent so as not to lose access to the device
1	Remain	remain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	device	device	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **lose** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | access |  |  |  | to the device | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Share the material so that friends are warned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:e4:o4:1
# text = Share the material so that friends are warned
1	Share	share	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | imperative | you *not said here* | the material |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · passive |  | friends |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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