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title: Identify the principal reason for which hoax calls to an emergency n… — Covering up, false alarms and playing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which hoax calls to an emergency number are prohibited. Exam question 2 of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 2 · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

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Identify the principal reason for which hoax calls to an emergency number are prohibited.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, hoax · **What happens:** identify, call, prohibit · **To what, where:** principal reason, emergency number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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/277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which hoax calls to an emergency number are prohibited.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	hoax	hoax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | hoax |  | a emergency number |  |  | for the principal reason | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to number=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prohibit** | present · passive | hoax *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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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They divert call takers from persons in genuine danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play:e2:o1:1
# text = They divert call takers from persons in genuine danger
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	divert	divert	NOUN	VBP	Number=Sing	3	reparandum	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	takers	taker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divert** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present |  | takers |  | genuine danger |  | from persons | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent taker=Theme from person=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are merely considered impolite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play:e2:o2:1
# text = They are merely considered impolite
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	impolite	impolite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive |  | They |  |  |  | impolite, merely *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They incur a small charge to the caller's family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play:e2:o3:1
# text = They incur a small charge to the caller's family
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	incur	incur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	caller	caller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incur** | present | They | a small charge |  |  |  | to the caller's family | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They cause the telephone line to fail for the whole of the district

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play:e2:o4:1
# text = They cause the telephone line to fail for the whole of the district
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | They | the telephone line |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition line=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the whole | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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