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title: Identify the principal reason for which two persons maintaining a sh… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which two persons maintaining a shared falsehood are frequently detected when questioned separately. Exam question 2 of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 2 · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home

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Identify the principal reason for which two persons maintaining a shared falsehood are frequently detected when questioned separately.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, two persons · **What happens:** identify, maintain, share, detect, question · **To what, where:** principal reason, shared falsehood, two persons

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which two persons maintaining a shared falsehood are frequently detected when questioned separately.
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	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	detected	detect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	questioned	question	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
18	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **maintain** | gerund | two persons *not said here* | a shared falsehood |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent falsehood=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **detect** | present · passive |  | two persons |  |  |  | for the principal reason; frequently *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **question** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: 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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They are questioned at excessive length

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:e2:o1:1
# text = They are questioned at excessive length
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	questioned	question	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | They |  | excessive length |  |  | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Separate questioning is prohibited

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:e2:o2:1
# text = Separate questioning is prohibited
1	Separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	questioning	questioning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	prohibited	prohibit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prohibit** | present · passive |  | Separate questioning |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shared falsehoods are invariably true in every particular

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:e2:o3:1
# text = Shared falsehoods are invariably true in every particular
1	Shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Shared falsehoods |  |  | every particular |  | invariably, true *property* | tree rules |

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

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The details of their accounts do not correspond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:e2:o4:1
# text = The details of their accounts do not correspond
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	correspond	correspond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **correspond** | present · do-support | the details of details's accounts |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **detail** |  |  | details's accounts |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **account** |  | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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