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description: State the conduct most conducive to the protection of a child who has disclosed mistreatment to a parent. Exam question 4 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 4 · Adults who help and adults who don't

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State the conduct most conducive to the protection of a child who has disclosed mistreatment to a parent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** state, disclose, protect · **To what, where:** conduct, mistreatment, child

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:e4:1
# text = State the conduct most conducive to the protection of a child who has disclosed mistreatment to a parent.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	conducive	conducive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	disclosed	disclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	mistreatment	mistreatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 conduct |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic |
| 2 | **disclose** | present · perfect | a child | mistreatment |  |  |  | to a parent | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to parent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **protect** |  |  | a child |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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 {#o1}

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The parent instructs the child to retaliate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:e4:o1:1
# text = The parent instructs the child to retaliate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	instructs	instruct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	retaliate	retaliate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | the parent |  | the child |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 2 | **retaliate** | to-infinitive | the parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The parent listens, thanks the child and contacts the school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:e4:o2:1
# text = The parent listens, thanks the child and contacts the school
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thanks	thank	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	contacts	contact	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | present | the parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | the parent *not said here* |  | the child |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **contact** | present | the parent *not said here* | the school |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The parent defers all action for a month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:e4:o3:1
# text = The parent defers all action for a month
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	defers	defer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **defer** | present | the parent | all action |  |  | month |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent action=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The parent confronts the other children personally at the school gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:e4:o4:1
# text = The parent confronts the other children personally at the school gate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	confronts	confront	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	personally	personally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confront** | present | the parent | the other children |  | the school gate |  | personally *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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