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title: Identify the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friend… — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friends who have quarrelled with neither. Exam question 1 of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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 · Growing apart

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Identify the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friends who have quarrelled with neither.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, two friends · **What happens:** identify, quarrell, cause, separate · **To what, where:** principal cause, gradual separation

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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/464-growing-apart/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal cause of the gradual separation of two friends who have quarrelled with neither.
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	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gradual	gradual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 cause of the gradual separation of two friends |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 2 | **quarrell** | present · perfect | two friends |  |  |  |  | with neither | tree rules |
| 3 | **cause** |  |  | the gradual separation of two friends |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **separate** |  | two friends |  |  |  |  |  | nom separation «state intransitive»: of=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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The secret malice of one party towards the other party

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:e1:o1:1
# text = The secret malice of one party towards the other party
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The intervention of their teachers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:e1:o2:1
# text = The intervention of their teachers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	intervention	intervention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
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	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intervene** |  | their teachers |  |  |  |  |  | nom intervention «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The dishonesty of both parties

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:e1:o3:1
# text = The dishonesty of both parties
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dishonesty	dishonesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The development of differing interests as they mature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:e1:o4:1
# text = The development of differing interests as they mature
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	differing	differ	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mature	mature	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | gerund | the development *not said here* | interests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mature** | present | interests *= interest* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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