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description: Identify the principal determinant of the order in which children are selected by child captains. Exam question 1 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Exam question 1 · Picking teams and being picked last

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Identify the principal determinant of the order in which children are selected by child captains.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, child captains · **What happens:** identify, select, determine · **To what, where:** principal determinant, children, order

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» 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/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal determinant of the order in which children are selected by child captains.
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	determinant	determinant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 determinant of the order |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent determinant=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | present · passive | child captains | children |  | the order |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **determine** |  |  | the order |  |  |  |  | nom determinant «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Alphabetical order of surname

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:e1:o1:1
# text = Alphabetical order of surname
1	Alphabetical	alphabetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	surname	surname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** |  |  | surname |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The instructions of the head teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:e1:o2:1
# text = The instructions of the head teacher
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** |  |  | the head teacher |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Friendship and mood rather than ability

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:e1:o3:1
# text = Friendship and mood rather than ability
1	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Measured athletic ability

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:e1:o4:1
# text = Measured athletic ability
1	Measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	athletic	athletic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | participle |  | athletic ability |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ability=Value |

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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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