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description: Ascertain the most probable reason for which a child who has been injured by a peer subsequently alters her route about the playground. Exam question 2 of lesson 380 «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 2 · Maddie and Chloe's plaits

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Ascertain the most probable reason for which a child who has been injured by a peer subsequently alters her route about the playground.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, peer, child · **What happens:** ascertain, injure, alter · **To what, where:** probable reason, child, route

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 380 «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the most probable reason for which a child who has been injured by a peer subsequently alters her route about the playground.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	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	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	alters	alter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 probable reason |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 2 | **injure** | present · perfect · passive | a peer | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **alter** | present | a child | child's route |  |  |  | for the probable reason; about the playground; subsequently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent route=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 {#o1}

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A requirement imposed by the school authorities

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:e2:o1:1
# text = A requirement imposed by the school authorities
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	requirement	requirement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	authorities	authority	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | participle |  | a requirement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A preference for proximity to refuse receptacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:e2:o2:1
# text = A preference for proximity to refuse receptacles
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	preference	preference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	proximity	proximity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
7	receptacles	receptacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | to-infinitive |  | receptacles |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent receptacle=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A desire to increase her daily exercise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:e2:o3:1
# text = A desire to increase her daily exercise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | to-infinitive |  | her daily exercise |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer exercise=Patient |
| 2 | **exercise** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Avoidance of the peer by whom she was injured

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:e2:o4:1
# text = Avoidance of the peer by whom she was injured
1	Avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	peer	peer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	nmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | injured *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **avoid** |  |  | the peer |  |  |  |  | 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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