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title: Identify the principal condition under which a child may be left at… — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal condition under which a child may be left at home alone for a short period. Exam question 1 of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Exam question 1 · Home alone, keys and garden play

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Identify the principal condition under which a child may be left at home alone for a short period.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, leave · **To what, where:** principal condition, child

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal condition under which a child may be left at home alone for a short period.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	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 principal condition |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | may · passive |  | a child |  | the principal condition |  | at home; for a short period; alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme under which=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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The child is over the age of six years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:e1:o1:1
# text = The child is over the age of six years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the child |  |  |  | over the age; year |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A grown-up agrees and the child can reach them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:e1:o2:1
# text = A grown-up agrees and the child can reach them
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | can | the child | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The child has a television to watch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:e1:o3:1
# text = The child has a television to watch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	television	television	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the child | a television |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent television=Patient |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | a television *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The child promises not to answer the phone or the door to anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:e1:o4:1
# text = The child promises not to answer the phone or the door to anyone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | the phone or the door |  |  |  | to anyone | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Eventuality |

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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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