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description: Identify the most appropriate response of a child to a cousin who incites him to commit theft. Exam question 2 of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 2 · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away

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Identify the most appropriate response of a child to a cousin who incites him to commit theft.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cousin · **What happens:** identify, incite, commit · **To what, where:** appropriate response, child, theft

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:e2:1
# text = Identify the most appropriate response of a child to a cousin who incites him to commit theft.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	incites	incite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 appropriate response of a child to a cousin |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **incite** | present | a cousin | child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **commit** | to-infinitive | a cousin *not said here* | theft |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theft=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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To comply in order to preserve family harmony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:e2:o1:1
# text = To comply in order to preserve family harmony
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	comply	comply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comply** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **preserve** | to-infinitive |  | family harmony |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harmony=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To comply on a single occasion only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:e2:o2:1
# text = To comply on a single occasion only
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	comply	comply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comply** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a single occasion |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To commit the theft and subsequently confess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:e2:o3:1
# text = To commit the theft and subsequently confess
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	commit	commit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	confess	confess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commit** | to-infinitive |  | the theft |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theft=Theme |
| 2 | **confess** | present |  |  |  |  |  | subsequently *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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

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To refuse, notwithstanding the family relationship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:e2:o4:1
# text = To refuse, notwithstanding the family relationship
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **notwithstand** | gerund |  | the family relationship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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