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title: Identify the arrangement that is most likely to render a contest bet… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the arrangement that is most likely to render a contest between an older and a younger sibling fair. Exam question 2 of lesson 507 «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 2 · Siblings as best mates and as rivals

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Identify the arrangement that is most likely to render a contest between an older and a younger sibling fair.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, arrangement · **What happens:** identify, be, render · **To what, where:** arrangement, contest

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 507 «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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/507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals:e2:1
# text = Identify the arrangement that is most likely to render a contest between an older and a younger sibling fair.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	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 arrangement |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent arrangement=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the arrangement |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **render** | to-infinitive | the arrangement *not said here* | a contest |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=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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The complete abandonment of every competitive game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals:e2:o1:1
# text = The complete abandonment of every competitive game
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	abandonment	abandonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	competitive	competitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abandon** |  |  | every competitive game |  |  |  |  | nom abandonment «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The older sibling's secretly deliberate failure to score

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals:e2:o2:1
# text = The older sibling's secretly deliberate failure to score
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	score	score	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the older sibling | deliberate failure |  |  |  | secretly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **score** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The award of victory to the younger sibling in advance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals:e2:o3:1
# text = The award of victory to the younger sibling in advance
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	award	award	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **award** |  |  | victory |  |  |  | to the younger sibling in advance | nom award «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl |

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

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A genuine handicap, such as the weaker foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals:e2:o4:1
# text = A genuine handicap, such as the weaker foot
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	handicap	handicap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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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