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title: Ascertain the basis upon which girls have customarily been excluded… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the basis upon which girls have customarily been excluded from a particular recreational football game. Exam question 3 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 choi
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# Exam question 3 · Maddie the tomboy

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Ascertain the basis upon which girls have customarily been excluded from a particular recreational football game.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, exclude · **To what, where:** basis, girls, particular recreational football game

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the basis upon which girls have customarily been excluded from a particular recreational football game.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	excluded	exclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	recreational	recreational	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the basis |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basis=Topic |
| 2 | **exclude** | present · perfect · passive |  | girls |  | a particular recreational football game |  | upon the basis; customarily *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from game=Eventuality |

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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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A statute of the realm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e3:o1:1
# text = A statute of the realm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	statute	statute	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	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A regulation issued by the council

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e3:o2:1
# text = A regulation issued by the council
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	regulation	regulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | participle |  | a regulation *not said here* |  |  |  | by the council | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by council=Location |

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

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Habit, as distinct from any rule or law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e3:o3:1
# text = Habit, as distinct from any rule or law
1	Habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The physical incapacity of girls to play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:e3:o4:1
# text = The physical incapacity of girls to play
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	incapacity	incapacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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