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title: Identify the principal cause of many burns suffered by children at h… — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom priva… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal cause of many burns suffered by children at home. Exam question 2 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

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Identify the principal cause of many burns suffered by children at home.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, suffer, cause · **To what, where:** principal cause, many burns, home

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal cause of many burns suffered by children at home.
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	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	burns	burn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 cause of many burns |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | participle |  | many burns *not said here* |  | home |  | by children | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cause** |  |  | many burns |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Cold metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e2:o1:1
# text = Cold metal
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Electric lights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e2:o2:1
# text = Electric lights
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Hot water and steam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e2:o3:1
# text = Hot water and steam
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sunlight through windows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e2:o4:1
# text = Sunlight through windows
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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