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description: Identify the principal reason for which lamps and nightlights are to be kept away from curtains and fabric. Exam question 1 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» of the everyday 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 1 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

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Identify the principal reason for which lamps and nightlights are to be kept away from curtains and fabric.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, keep away · **To what, where:** principal reason, lamps, curtains

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which lamps and nightlights are to be kept away from curtains and fabric.
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	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
7	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nightlights	nightlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	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 reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **keep away** | present · passive | you *not said here* | lamps and nightlights |  | curtains and fabric |  | for the principal reason; away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from curtain=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Light bulbs grow hot and may set fabric alight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:e1:o1:1
# text = Light bulbs grow hot and may set fabric alight
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	alight	alight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Light bulbs |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | may | Light bulbs *not said here* | fabric |  |  |  | alight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fabric=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Light causes the curtains to shrink in size

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:e1:o2:1
# text = Light causes the curtains to shrink in size
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Light | the curtains |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curtain=Patient |
| 2 | **shrink** | to-infinitive | Light *not said here* |  |  | size |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fabric reduces the brightness of the bulb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:e1:o3:1
# text = Fabric reduces the brightness of the bulb
1	Fabric	fabric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reduces	reduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bulb	bulb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | present | Fabric | the brightness of the bulb |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer brightness=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Curtains interfere with the lamp's electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:e1:o4:1
# text = Curtains interfere with the lamp's electricity
1	Curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	interfere	interfere	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interfere** | present | Curtains |  |  |  |  | with the lamp's electricity | tree rules |
| 2 | **electrify** |  | the lamp |  |  |  |  |  | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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