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# Exam question 1 · Quiet places and solemn moments

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Identify the appropriate conduct during a minute's silence, as on Remembrance Day or Anzac Day.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, minute · **What happens:** identify, silence · **To what, where:** appropriate conduct

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:e1:1
# text = Identify the appropriate conduct during a minute's silence, as on Remembrance Day or Anzac Day.
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	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Remembrance	Remembrance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Anzac	Anzac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	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 conduct |  |  | during a minute's silence; as Remembrance Day or Anzac Day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme as day=Attribute |
| 2 | **silence** |  | a minute |  |  |  |  |  | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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One stands still and remains completely silent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:e1:o1:1
# text = One stands still and remains completely silent
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | One |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | present | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One claps at the end of each second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:e1:o2:1
# text = One claps at the end of each second
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	claps	clap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clap** | present | One |  |  |  | at the end of each second |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One continues walking slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:e1:o3:1
# text = One continues walking slowly
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | One |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One whispers quietly to friends, so as not to disturb others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:e1:o4:1
# text = One whispers quietly to friends, so as not to disturb others
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | One |  | friends |  |  | quietly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **disturb** | to-infinitive |  | others |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer |

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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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