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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Copying game moves on a little brother · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fights depicted in films and on the stage. Exam question 4 of lesson 403 «Copying game moves on a little brother» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 4 · Copying game moves on a little brother

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fights depicted in films and on the stage.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish, depict · **To what, where:** response, concerning fights, films

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 403 «Copying game moves on a little brother» 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/403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning fights depicted in films and on the stage.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	depicted	depict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **depict** | participle |  | concerning fights *not said here* |  | films and the stage |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: 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 {#o1}

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They are performed by untrained volunteers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother:e4:o1:1
# text = They are performed by untrained volunteers
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	untrained	untrained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** | present · passive | untrained volunteers | They |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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They invariably result in injury to the performers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother:e4:o2:1
# text = They invariably result in injury to the performers
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	result	result	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	performers	performer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **result** | present | They |  |  | injury |  | to the performers; invariably *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in injury=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They involve genuine blows delivered with full force

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother:e4:o3:1
# text = They involve genuine blows delivered with full force
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	involve	involve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | present | They | genuine blows |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 2 | **deliver** | participle |  | genuine blows *not said here* |  |  |  | with full force | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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They are simulated by trained performers so that no person is injured

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:403-copying-moves-on-a-little-brother:e4:o4:1
# text = They are simulated by trained performers so that no person is injured
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	simulated	simulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	performers	performer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	injured	injured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **simulate** | present · passive | trained performers | They |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | no person |  |  |  |  | injured *property* | tree rules |

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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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