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description: Identify the course of action recommended where a child in charge of a sibling encounters an injury more serious than a minor cut. Exam question 3 of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Exam question 3 · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»

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Identify the course of action recommended where a child in charge of a sibling encounters an injury more serious than a minor cut.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child · **What happens:** identify, recommend, encounter, charge · **To what, where:** course, action, injury, sibling

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» 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/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:e3:1
# text = Identify the course of action recommended where a child in charge of a sibling encounters an injury more serious than a minor cut.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	encounters	encounter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 course of action |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | action *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **encounter** | present | a child in charge of a sibling | a injury |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer injury=Stimulus |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | a sibling |  |  |  |  | nom charge «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 {#o1}

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Concealment of the injury from the parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:e3:o1:1
# text = Concealment of the injury from the parents
1	Concealment	concealment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** |  |  | the injury from the parents |  |  |  |  | nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Treatment of the injury by the child unaided

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:e3:o2:1
# text = Treatment of the injury by the child unaided
1	Treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	unaided	unaided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** |  | the child | the injury |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Waiting to ascertain whether it improves by evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:e3:o3:1
# text = Waiting to ascertain whether it improves by evening
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	improves	improve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ascertain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | whether it | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **improve** | present | Waiting |  |  |  | evening |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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The immediate summoning of an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:e3:o4:1
# text = The immediate summoning of an adult
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	summoning	summoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** |  |  | a adult |  |  |  |  | nom summoning «cognition transitive»: of=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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