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description: Identify the principal distinction between participation in a supervised boxing club and engagement in a street fight. Exam question 2 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 2 · Maddie the tomboy

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Identify the principal distinction between participation in a supervised boxing club and engagement in a street fight.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, supervise · **To what, where:** principal distinction, supervised boxing club

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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/378-maddie-the-tomboy/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal distinction between participation in a supervised boxing club and engagement in a street fight.
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	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	participation	participation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	supervised	supervise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	boxing	boxing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 distinction |  | a supervised boxing club and engagement |  | between participation; in a street fight | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent distinction=Theme |
| 2 | **supervise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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There exists no material distinction whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e2:o1:1
# text = There exists no material distinction whatsoever
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
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 | **exist** | present |  | no material distinction |  | there |  | whatsoever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The latter is safer by reason of its considerably shorter duration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e2:o2:1
# text = The latter is safer by reason of its considerably shorter duration
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the latter |  |  |  |  | by reason of reason's shorter duration; safe *property* | tree rules |

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

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The former is governed by rules, coaching and protective equipment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e2:o3:1
# text = The former is governed by rules, coaching and protective equipment
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	coaching	coach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	protective	protective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	equipment	equipment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | present · passive | rules and protective equipment | the former |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **coach** | gerund | rules and protective equipment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The former permits unlimited striking of any person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e2:o4:1
# text = The former permits unlimited striking of any person
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	permits	permit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	striking	striking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** |  |  | any person |  |  |  |  | nom striking «event 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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