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title: Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily inj… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily injury to another child. Exam question 2 of lesson 436 «Covering for a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Covering for a friend

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Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily injury to another child.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** select, cause · **To what, where:** response, bodily injury

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 436 «Covering for a friend» 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend:e2:1
# text = Select the response appropriate where a friend has caused bodily injury to another child.
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	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
10	bodily	bodily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present · perfect | a friend | bodily injury |  |  |  | to another child | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Covering is never appropriate, as the injured party requires adult knowledge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend:e2:o1:1
# text = Covering is never appropriate, as the injured party requires adult knowledge
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Covering |  |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **injure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | present | the injured party | adult knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knowledge=Precondition |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Covering is appropriate where the act was a game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend:e2:o2:1
# text = Covering is appropriate where the act was a game
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Covering |  |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the act | a game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Covering is appropriate if the injury is slight and the friend has apologised

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend:e2:o3:1
# text = Covering is appropriate if the injury is slight and the friend has apologised
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	apologised	apologise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Covering |  |  |  |  | appropriate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the injury |  |  |  |  | slight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | present · perfect | the friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Covering is appropriate if the friend so requests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend:e2:o4:1
# text = Covering is appropriate if the friend so requests
1	Covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	requests	request	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Covering |  |  |  |  | so requests; appropriate *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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