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title: Identify the principal lesson to be drawn from the conduct of the ha… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal lesson to be drawn from the conduct of the habitually complaining colleague who assisted at midnight. Exam question 2 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 2 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

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Identify the principal lesson to be drawn from the conduct of the habitually complaining colleague who assisted at midnight.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, complaining colleague · **What happens:** identify, draw, complain, assist, conduct · **To what, where:** principal lesson, complaining colleague

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal lesson to be drawn from the conduct of the habitually complaining colleague who assisted at midnight.
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	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	habitually	habitually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	colleague	colleague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	assisted	assist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 lesson |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | the principal lesson *not said here* |  |  |  | from the conduct of the complaining colleague | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: from conduct=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | habitually *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **assist** | past | the complaining colleague |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **conduct** |  |  | the complaining colleague |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A friend's faults do not preclude his reliability in need

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e2:o1:1
# text = A friend's faults do not preclude his reliability in need
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	preclude	preclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	reliability	reliability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **preclude** | present · do-support | a friend's faults | friend's reliability |  | need |  |  | vn exclude-107.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reliability=Theme |
| 2 | **fault** |  | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Complaining friends are invariably unreliable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e2:o2:1
# text = Complaining friends are invariably unreliable
1	Complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	friends	friend	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	unreliable	unreliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Complaining friends |  |  |  |  | invariably, unreliable *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reliability is proportional to cheerfulness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e2:o3:1
# text = Reliability is proportional to cheerfulness
1	Reliability	reliability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	proportional	proportional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	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 | Reliability |  |  |  |  | to cheerfulness; proportional *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Assistance ought to be refused to all who habitually complain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e2:o4:1
# text = Assistance ought to be refused to all who habitually complain
1	Assistance	Assistance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	habitually	habitually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	complain	complain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | ought · passive |  | Assistance |  |  |  | to all | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | habitually *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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