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# Exam question 2 · The lunchroom and school trips

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Which of the following constitutes the appropriate response to travel sickness on a school trip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, constitute, travel · **To what, where:** appropriate response, sickness, school trip

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:e2:1
# text = Which of the following constitutes the appropriate response to travel sickness on a school trip?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
5	constitutes	constitute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **constitute** | present |  | the appropriate response |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme response=Pivot |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  | sickness |  | a school trip |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sickness=Trajectory |

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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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Read a book to take one's mind off it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:e2:o1:1
# text = Read a book to take one's mind off it
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | a book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one's mind |  | mind |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mind=Theme off it=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **mind** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tell the teacher early, sit near the front, look at the horizon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:e2:o2:1
# text = Tell the teacher early, sit near the front, look at the horizon
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the teacher |  |  | early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the front |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near front=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the horizon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horizon=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Look at a phone screen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:e2:o3:1
# text = Look at a phone screen
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a phone screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sit at the very back of the coach and say nothing until arrival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:e2:o4:1
# text = Sit at the very back of the coach and say nothing until arrival
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	until	until	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the back of the coach |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | nothing |  |  | until arrival |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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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