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title: Ascertain the appropriate response to an older relative with dementi… — Respect for first peoples, older peopl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the appropriate response to an older relative with dementia who repeats a question. Exam question 4 of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 4 · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

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Ascertain the appropriate response to an older relative with dementia who repeats a question.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dementia · **What happens:** ascertain, repeat · **To what, where:** appropriate response, question

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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/227-older-people-and-disabilities/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the appropriate response to an older relative with dementia who repeats a question.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 appropriate response |  |  |  | to a older relative with dementia | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Topic |
| 2 | **repeat** | present | dementia | a question |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |

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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 refuse to answer a second time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities:e4:o1:1
# text = To refuse to answer a second time
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To answer kindly each time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities:e4:o2:1
# text = To answer kindly each time
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | kindly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To point out the repetition crossly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities:e4:o3:1
# text = To point out the repetition crossly
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	crossly	crossly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point out** | to-infinitive |  | the repetition |  |  |  | crossly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repetition=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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To leave the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:227-older-people-and-disabilities:e4:o4:1
# text = To leave the room
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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