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title: Identify the principal characteristic of ADHD. — Compliments, respecting differences an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal characteristic of ADHD. Exam question 2 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 2 · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

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Identify the principal characteristic of ADHD.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal characteristic

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and 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/298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal characteristic of ADHD.
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	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ADHD	adhd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	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 characteristic of ADHD |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=Theme |

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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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A difference in how the brain works that can make sitting still hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e2:o1:1
# text = A difference in how the brain works that can make sitting still hard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	obj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | the brain | a difference |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | a difference |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An illness caught from others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e2:o2:1
# text = An illness caught from others
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle | a illness |  |  | others |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from other=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A condition caused by eating too much sugar and too many sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e2:o3:1
# text = A condition caused by eating too much sugar and too many sweets
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | participle |  | a condition and many sweets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | much sugar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A form of deliberate naughtiness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities:e2:o4:1
# text = A form of deliberate naughtiness
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	naughtiness	naughtiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** |  |  | deliberate naughtiness |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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