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title: Identify the party whose rules govern the conduct of guests at a sle… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the party whose rules govern the conduct of guests at a sleepover. Exam question 1 of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 1 · Sleepovers and inside jokes

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Identify the party whose rules govern the conduct of guests at a sleepover.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, rules · **What happens:** identify, govern, conduct · **To what, where:** party, conduct, guests

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:e1:1
# text = Identify the party whose rules govern the conduct of guests at a sleepover.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	govern	govern	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 party |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent party=Theme |
| 2 | **govern** | present | rules | the conduct of guests at a sleepover |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme |
| 3 | **conduct** |  |  | guests at a sleepover |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No party whatsoever, on that occasion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:e1:o1:1
# text = No party whatsoever, on that occasion
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The eldest guest present

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:e1:o2:1
# text = The eldest guest present
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The parents of the host

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:e1:o3:1
# text = The parents of the host
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Each guest according to his own household

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:e1:o4:1
# text = Each guest according to his own household
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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