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# Exam question 1 · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a fair method of resolving disagreement within a group?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fair method · **What happens:** follow, characteris, resolve · **To what, where:** fair method, disagreement

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a fair method of resolving disagreement within a group?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	resolving	resolve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **characteris** | present |  | a fair method |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | gerund | a fair method *not said here* | disagreement |  |  |  | within a group | tree rules |

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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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Adopting the idea of whoever spoke first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:e1:o1:1
# text = Adopting the idea of whoever spoke first
1	Adopting	adopt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | gerund |  | the idea of whoever |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Adopting |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Listening to each idea, then voting or combining ideas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:e1:o2:1
# text = Listening to each idea, then voting or combining ideas
1	Listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	voting	vote	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	combining	combine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to each idea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to idea=Theme |
| 2 | **vote** | gerund | Listening |  |  |  | then |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **combine** | gerund | Listening *not said here* | ideas |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Deferring always to the loudest member, whose conviction is evidently the strongest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:e1:o3:1
# text = Deferring always to the loudest member, whose conviction is evidently the strongest
1	Deferring	defer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	conviction	conviction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the loudest member and the loudest member and the loudest member's conviction's conviction; always *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to member=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | Deferring |  |  |  |  | evidently, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **convict** |  | the loudest member and the loudest member and conviction's conviction |  |  |  |  |  | nom conviction «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Abandoning the task entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:e1:o4:1
# text = Abandoning the task entirely
1	Abandoning	abandon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** | gerund |  | the task |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme task=Source |

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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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