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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between another person's achievement and one's own? Exam question 1 of lesson 353 «When you want what others have» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 1 · When you want what others have

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between another person's achievement and one's own?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** follow, characteris, achieve · **To what, where:** relationship

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 353 «When you want what others have» 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/353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relationship between another person's achievement and one's own?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	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 |  | the relationship |  |  |  | of the following statements; between another person's achievement; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **achieve** |  | another person |  |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Envy increases one's own achievement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone:e1:o1:1
# text = Envy increases one's own achievement
1	Envy	envy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	increases	increase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | present | Envy | one's own achievement |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer achievement=Patient |
| 2 | **achieve** |  | one |  |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One person's success necessarily reduces another's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone:e1:o2:1
# text = One person's success necessarily reduces another's
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	reduces	reduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | present | One person's success | another |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer another=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Achievements are rationed within a family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone:e1:o3:1
# text = Achievements are rationed within a family
1	Achievements	achievement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	rationed	ration	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ration** | present · passive |  | Achievements |  |  |  | within a family | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Another person's achievement does not diminish one's own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:353-presents-goody-bags-certificates-and-the-newest-phone:e1:o4:1
# text = Another person's achievement does not diminish one's own
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	achievement	achievement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	diminish	diminish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **diminish** | present · do-support | another person's achievement | one |  |  |  | own *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer one=Patient |
| 2 | **achieve** |  | another person |  |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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