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description: State the appropriate conduct where an online contact proposes moving to a private application or meeting in person. Exam question 4 of lesson 282 «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 4 · Chain messages, lures and scam messages

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State the appropriate conduct where an online contact proposes moving to a private application or meeting in person.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** online contact · **What happens:** propose, move · **To what, where:** private application

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 282 «Chain messages, lures and scam messages» 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/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages:e4:1
# text = State the appropriate conduct where an online contact proposes moving to a private application or meeting in person.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	proposes	propose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | present | a online contact |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | a online contact *not said here* |  |  | a private application or meeting in person |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to application=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The child shall move apps but refuse to meet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages:e4:o1:1
# text = The child shall move apps but refuse to meet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | shall | the child | apps |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent app=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | present | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **meet** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The child shall meet only in a public place alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages:e4:o2:1
# text = The child shall meet only in a public place alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | shall | the child |  |  | a public place |  | alone *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The child shall agree provided the contact seems friendly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages:e4:o3:1
# text = The child shall agree provided the contact seems friendly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | shall | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **provide** *not said to happen* | participle | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **seem** | present | the contact |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The child shall decline and inform a parent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages:e4:o4:1
# text = The child shall decline and inform a parent
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	decline	decline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decline** | shall | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | infinitive | the child *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |

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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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