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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a friend who disparages one's spouse in company. Exam question 4 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 question an
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# Exam question 4 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a friend who disparages one's spouse in company.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established facts, friend · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, disparage · **To what, where:** response, friend, spouse, company

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a friend who disparages one's spouse in company.
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	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	disparages	disparage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	spouse	spouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | a friend |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer |
| 4 | **disparage** | present | a friend | one's spouse |  | company |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spouse=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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The remark ought to be applauded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e4:o1:1
# text = The remark ought to be applauded
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	applauded	applaud	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 | **applaud** | ought · passive |  | the remark |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is proper to require an apology notwithstanding the friendship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e4:o2:1
# text = It is proper to require an apology notwithstanding the friendship
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | proper *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | to-infinitive |  | a apology |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apology=Precondition |
| 3 | **notwithstand** | gerund | a apology *not said here* | the friendship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The spouse ought to apologise to the friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e4:o3:1
# text = The spouse ought to apologise to the friend
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spouse	spouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	apologise	apologise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | ought | the spouse |  |  |  |  | to the friend | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Friendship requires that such remarks be tolerated without objection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work:e4:o4:1
# text = Friendship requires that such remarks be tolerated without objection
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present | Friendship |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 2 | **tolerate** | infinitive · passive |  | such remarks |  |  |  | without objection | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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