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title: Determine what remains to be done by a child who has confessed negle… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine what remains to be done by a child who has confessed neglecting the plants of a grandparent. Exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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 wro
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# Exam question 4 · Chores you skipped

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Determine what remains to be done by a child who has confessed neglecting the plants of a grandparent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** determine, remain, do, confess, neglect · **To what, where:** plants

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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/350-chores-you-skipped/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e4:1
# text = Determine what remains to be done by a child who has confessed neglecting the plants of a grandparent.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	confessed	confess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	neglecting	neglect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remain** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **confess** | present · perfect | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **neglect** | gerund | a child *not said here* | the plants of a grandparent |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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 {#o1}

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She ought to purchase a plant for the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e4:o1:1
# text = She ought to purchase a plant for the church
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | ought | She | a plant |  |  |  | for the church | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent plant=Theme for church=Asset |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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She ought to conceal the matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e4:o2:1
# text = She ought to conceal the matter
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | ought | She | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing further is required

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e4:o3:1
# text = Nothing further is required
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |

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

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She ought to inform the grandparent and replace a plant at her own expense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:e4:o4:1
# text = She ought to inform the grandparent and replace a plant at her own expense
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | ought | She | the grandparent |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient |
| 2 | **replace** | infinitive | She *not said here* | a plant |  | her own expense |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plant=Co-Theme |

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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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