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title: Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue. — Queues, taking turns and interrupting · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue. Exam question 4 of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

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Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, one, persons · **What happens:** ascertain, allow, go · **To what, where:** persons, queue

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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/223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the persons whom one might allow to go ahead in a queue.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the persons |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** | might | one | the persons |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer whom=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the persons *not said here* |  |  | a queue |  | ahead *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in queue=Location |

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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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Only persons who push forward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:e4:o1:1
# text = Only persons who push forward
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push forward** | present | persons |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only one's own friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:e4:o2:1
# text = Only one's own friends
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only those persons who request it loudly and repeatedly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:e4:o3:1
# text = Only those persons who request it loudly and repeatedly
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	request	request	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | present | that persons | it |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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

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Older or disabled persons, or a parent with a baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:223-queues-taking-turns-and-interrupting:e4:o4:1
# text = Older or disabled persons, or a parent with a baby
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	disabled	disabled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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