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title: State the matter on which a child who is adopted or in foster care m… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the matter on which a child who is adopted or in foster care may decide. Exam question 4 of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school,
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# Exam question 4 · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

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State the matter on which a child who is adopted or in foster care may decide.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** state, adopt, decide · **To what, where:** matter, child

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:e4:1
# text = State the matter on which a child who is adopted or in foster care may decide.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent matter=Topic |
| 2 | **adopt** | present · passive |  | a child |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** | may | a child |  |  |  |  | on the matter | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on which=Topic |

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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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What, if anything, they share about their story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:e4:o1:1
# text = What, if anything, they share about their story
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | they |  |  |  |  | about their story; anything *vocative* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, since others must be told

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:e4:o2:1
# text = Nothing, since others must be told
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Whether teachers may know their name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:e4:o3:1
# text = Whether teachers may know their name
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | may | teachers | teachers's name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 2 | **name** |  | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Which classmates must be told everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money:e4:o4:1
# text = Which classmates must be told everything
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive |  | which classmates |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient everything=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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