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description: Identify the principal difficulty arising from a household with too few rules. Exam question 3 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 3 · Warm parents and strict parents

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Identify the principal difficulty arising from a household with too few rules.

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

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 493 «Warm parents and strict parents» 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/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e3:1
# text = Identify the principal difficulty arising from a household with too few rules.
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	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	arising	arise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | gerund | the principal difficulty *not said here* |  |  | a household |  | with few rules | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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An excess of strict instruction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e3:o1:1
# text = An excess of strict instruction
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Insufficient sleep and fatigue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e3:o2:1
# text = Insufficient sleep and fatigue
1	Insufficient	insufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A surplus of homework assigned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e3:o3:1
# text = A surplus of homework assigned
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surplus	surplus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	assigned	assign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assign** | participle |  | a surplus of homework *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Excessive sleep and lethargy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents:e3:o4:1
# text = Excessive sleep and lethargy
1	Excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lethargy	lethargy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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