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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning age limits on apps and games. Exam question 4 of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Exam question 4 · Lies that do real harm

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning age limits on apps and games.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 197 «Lies that do real harm» 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/197-harmful-lies/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning age limits on apps and games.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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They apply only to games played on computers at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:e4:o1:1
# text = They apply only to games played on computers at school
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	apply	apply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	computers	computer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | present | They | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | participle |  | games *not said here* |  | computers |  | at school | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They exist only so that companies can sell more to adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:e4:o2:1
# text = They exist only so that companies can sell more to adults
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | can | companies | more | adults |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Theme to adult=Recipient |

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

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They exist to protect children from unsafe content and contacts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:e4:o3:1
# text = They exist to protect children from unsafe content and contacts
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	contacts	contact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  | children |  |  | from unsafe content and contacts | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from content=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are suggestions that children may safely ignore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:197-harmful-lies:e4:o4:1
# text = They are suggestions that children may safely ignore
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	suggestions	suggestion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | suggestions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | may | children | suggestions |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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