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# Exam question 4 · Confession, prayer and making amends at church

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State the measure recommended as most conducive to the alteration of a habit of idle mischief.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, recommend, alter · **To what, where:** measure, habit

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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/365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:e4:1
# text = State the measure recommended as most conducive to the alteration of a habit of idle mischief.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	conducive	conducive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	alteration	alteration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	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 measure |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent measure=Topic |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | the measure *not said here* |  |  |  | conducive *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **alter** |  |  | a habit of idle mischief |  |  |  |  | nom alteration «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The confinement of the child indoors indefinitely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:e4:o1:1
# text = The confinement of the child indoors indefinitely
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	confinement	confinement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confine** |  |  | the child |  |  |  |  | nom confinement «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The repetition of promises without any change in the child's circumstances

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:e4:o2:1
# text = The repetition of promises without any change in the child's circumstances
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	repetition	repetition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** |  | promises without any change in the child's circumstances |  |  |  |  |  | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The reduction of idle time and of the company of those who encourage mischief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:e4:o3:1
# text = The reduction of idle time and of the company of those who encourage mischief
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reduction	reduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	encourage	encourage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | present |  | mischief |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Theme |
| 2 | **reduce** |  |  | idle time |  |  |  |  | nom reduction «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The avoidance of all friends whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:e4:o4:1
# text = The avoidance of all friends whatsoever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** |  |  | all friends |  |  |  |  | nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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