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title: Select the response consistent with established practice where a tea… — Honest work at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with established practice where a teacher, in error, has awarded a pupil marks not earned. Exam question 3 of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 3 · Honest work at school

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Select the response consistent with established practice where a teacher, in error, has awarded a pupil marks not earned.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, response · **What happens:** select, establish, award, not earn · **To what, where:** teacher

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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/201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with established practice where a teacher, in error, has awarded a pupil marks not earned.
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	21	nsubj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **award** | present · perfect · passive |  | a teacher and error |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal pupil=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **earn** | present | the response |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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The pupil is entitled to retain the marks in silence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:e3:o1:1
# text = The pupil is entitled to retain the marks in silence
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entitle** | present · passive |  | the pupil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retain** | to-infinitive |  | the marks |  | silence |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The pupil ought to inform only fellow pupils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:e3:o2:1
# text = The pupil ought to inform only fellow pupils
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | ought | the pupil |  | fellow pupils |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient |

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

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The pupil ought to inform the teacher of the error

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:e3:o3:1
# text = The pupil ought to inform the teacher of the error
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | ought | the pupil |  | the teacher of the error |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The pupil ought to request further marks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework:e3:o4:1
# text = The pupil ought to request further marks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	request	request	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | ought | the pupil | further marks |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mark=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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