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# Exam question 1 · Homework, practice and the team counting on you

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Identify the principal reason for which the omission of one member's portion of a group assignment is detrimental to the group.

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

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 351 «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which the omission of one member's portion of a group assignment is detrimental to the group.
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	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	assignment	assignment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	detrimental	detrimental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the omission of one member's portion of a group assignment |  |  |  |  | for the principal reason; to the group; detrimental *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **omit** |  |  | one member's portion of a group assignment |  |  |  |  | nom omission «act 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The group cannot complete the work and all receive a lower mark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:e1:o1:1
# text = The group cannot complete the work and all receive a lower mark
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	receive	receive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **complete** | can | the group | the work |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **receive** | present | the group *not said here* | a lower mark |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only the absent member is penalised

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:e1:o2:1
# text = Only the absent member is penalised
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	penalised	penalis	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 | **penalis** | present · passive |  | the absent member |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Group assignments are optional

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:e1:o3:1
# text = Group assignments are optional
1	Group	group	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	assignments	assignment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	optional	optional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Group assignments |  |  |  |  | optional *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Teachers do not mark group work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:e1:o4:1
# text = Teachers do not mark group work
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mark** | present · do-support | Teachers | group work |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent work=Destination |

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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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