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# Exam question 3 · Getting help is not telling tales

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Identify the most appropriate course of action for a pupil who discovers that a classmate's telephone has been taken by another child.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, pupil, child · **What happens:** identify, discover, take · **To what, where:** appropriate course, telephone

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:e3:1
# text = Identify the most appropriate course of action for a pupil who discovers that a classmate's telephone has been taken by another child.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	discovers	discover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 appropriate course of action |  |  |  | for a pupil | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | present | a pupil |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | another child | a classmate's telephone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To summon the teacher on duty without delay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:e3:o1:1
# text = To summon the teacher on duty without delay
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	summon	summon	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | to-infinitive |  |  | the teacher | duty |  | without delay | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To refrain from any action whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:e3:o2:1
# text = To refrain from any action whatsoever
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refrain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | any action |  | whatsoever *property* | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent from action=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To take an article belonging to the other child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:e3:o3:1
# text = To take an article belonging to the other child
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a article |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a article *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the other child | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To retrieve the telephone by force

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:e3:o4:1
# text = To retrieve the telephone by force
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retrieve** | to-infinitive |  | the telephone |  |  |  | by force | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=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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