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title: Identify the principal characteristic of a boarding school. — Rich families: the big house, the nann… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal characteristic of a boarding school. Exam question 2 of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 wron
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# Exam question 2 · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad

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Identify the principal characteristic of a boarding school.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal characteristic

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal characteristic of a boarding school.
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	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	boarding	boarding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 characteristic of a boarding school |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pupils attend it only at weekends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:e2:o1:1
# text = Pupils attend it only at weekends
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | present | Pupils | it |  |  | weekend |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Goal |

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

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Pupils reside there during the term

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:e2:o2:1
# text = Pupils reside there during the term
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reside	reside	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reside** | present | Pupils |  |  | there | during the term |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pupils are taught there entirely online

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:e2:o3:1
# text = Pupils are taught there entirely online
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	online	online	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Pupils |  | there |  | entirely, online *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pupils are admitted only after the age of sixteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad:e2:o4:1
# text = Pupils are admitted only after the age of sixteen
1	Pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Pupils |  |  | after the age of sixteen |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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