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title: Identify the interval at which the Summer Olympic Games are ordinari… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the interval at which the Summer Olympic Games are ordinarily held. Exam question 1 of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» of the medicine 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 1 · The Olympics and Paralympics

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Identify the interval at which the Summer Olympic Games are ordinarily held.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, hold · **To what, where:** interval, Summer Olympic Games

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» of the medicine 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/medicine/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:e1:1
# text = Identify the interval at which the Summer Olympic Games are ordinarily held.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Summer	Summer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	Olympic	Olympic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	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 interval |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent interval=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present · passive |  | the Summer Olympic Games |  | the interval |  | ordinarily *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at which=Location |

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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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Every two years in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:e1:o1:1
# text = Every two years in summer
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Once every ten years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:e1:o2:1
# text = Once every ten years
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Every four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:e1:o3:1
# text = Every four years
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every single year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:e1:o4:1
# text = Every single year
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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