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description: Identify the most effective pattern of revision for long-term remembering. Exam question 1 of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 1 · Tests, exams and mistakes

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Identify the most effective pattern of revision for long-term remembering.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, revision · **What happens:** identify, remember, pattern · **To what, where:** effective pattern, long term

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:e1:1
# text = Identify the most effective pattern of revision for long-term remembering.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	revision	revision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 effective pattern of revision |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund | you *not said here* | long term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | revision |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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 {#o1}

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Reading the book once quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:e1:o1:1
# text = Reading the book once quickly
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | the book |  |  |  | once, quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Revising for a whole day once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:e1:o2:1
# text = Revising for a whole day once
1	Revising	revise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revise** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | once *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Revising a little on several days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:e1:o3:1
# text = Revising a little on several days
1	Revising	revise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revise** | gerund |  | a little |  |  | day |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Revising only on the night before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:e1:o4:1
# text = Revising only on the night before
1	Revising	revise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revise** | gerund |  |  |  |  | night | before *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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