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# Exam question 1 · Growing up, honesty and manners

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Identify the person or persons to whom questions concerning the changes of a growing body are properly addressed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, questions, growing body · **What happens:** identify, concern, grow, address, change · **To what, where:** person, changes, questions

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:e1:1
# text = Identify the person or persons to whom questions concerning the changes of a growing body are properly addressed.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nmod	_	_
8	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person or persons to the person or persons to the person |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | questions *not said here* | the changes of a growing body |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus change=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **address** | present · passive |  | questions |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **change** |  | a growing body |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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Older pupils encountered in the playground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:e1:o1:1
# text = Older pupils encountered in the playground
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past | Older pupils |  |  | the playground |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Strangers upon internet forums and chats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:e1:o2:1
# text = Strangers upon internet forums and chats
1	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	forums	forum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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A parent, the school nurse or a doctor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:e1:o3:1
# text = A parent, the school nurse or a doctor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No one, as such questions are forbidden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:e1:o4:1
# text = No one, as such questions are forbidden
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present · passive |  | no one and such questions |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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