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title: Identify the principal reason for exercising care about what is show… — Video calls and visiting a friend's ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for exercising care about what is shown during a video call. Exam question 3 of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 3 · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

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Identify the principal reason for exercising care about what is shown during a video call.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, principal reason · **What happens:** identify, exercise, show · **To what, where:** principal reason, care

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:e3:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for exercising care about what is shown during a video call.
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	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	exercising	exercise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **exercise** | gerund | the principal reason *not said here* | care |  |  |  | about the principal reason | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | during a video call |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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Cameras turn off by themselves after five minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:e3:o1:1
# text = Cameras turn off by themselves after five minutes
1	Cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | present | Cameras |  |  |  | minute | by Cameras *= camera* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only the person speaking can be seen by others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:e3:o2:1
# text = Only the person speaking can be seen by others
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | can · passive | others | the person |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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

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Anything on the call can be screenshotted or recorded and shared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:e3:o3:1
# text = Anything on the call can be screenshotted or recorded and shared
1	Anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	screenshotted	screenshott	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **screenshott** | can · passive |  | Anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Video calls show only faces and nothing else at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:e3:o4:1
# text = Video calls show only faces and nothing else at all
1	Video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Video calls | faces |  | all |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent face=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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