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# Exam question 1 · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

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Identify the appropriate response where a person offers a child a cigarette, a vape or alcohol.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** identify, offer · **To what, where:** appropriate response, cigarette, child

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:e1:1
# text = Identify the appropriate response where a person offers a child a cigarette, a vape or alcohol.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cigarette	cigarette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	vape	vape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 appropriate response |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | present | a person | a cigarette and a vape or alcohol | a child |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent child=Goal cigarette=Theme |

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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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To accept but refrain from using it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:e1:o1:1
# text = To accept but refrain from using it
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refrain** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To accept in order to fit in with the group

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:e1:o2:1
# text = To accept in order to fit in with the group
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | order |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fit in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the group | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To keep it for later use

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:e1:o3:1
# text = To keep it for later use
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | for use | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To decline with «No thanks» and walk away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:e1:o4:1
# text = To decline with «No thanks» and walk away
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	decline	decline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with no thanks | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **walk away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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