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title: Determine the conduct most appropriate for a team whose victory is a… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the conduct most appropriate for a team whose victory is assured by a considerable margin in a junior fixture. Exam question 4 of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 4 · Losing well and winning well

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Determine the conduct most appropriate for a team whose victory is assured by a considerable margin in a junior fixture.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, considerable margin · **What happens:** determine, assure · **To what, where:** conduct, victory

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:e4:1
# text = Determine the conduct most appropriate for a team whose victory is assured by a considerable margin in a junior fixture.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	junior	junior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fixture	fixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the conduct |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Topic |
| 2 | **assure** | present · passive | a considerable margin in a junior fixture | victory |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Distribution of possession and experimentation with positions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:e4:o1:1
# text = Distribution of possession and experimentation with positions
1	Distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	experimentation	experimentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distribute** |  |  | possession |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Withdrawal from the field of play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:e4:o2:1
# text = Withdrawal from the field of play
1	Withdrawal	withdrawal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Maximisation of the margin of victory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:e4:o3:1
# text = Maximisation of the margin of victory
1	Maximisation	maximisation	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	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **maximise** |  |  | the margin of victory |  |  |  |  | nom maximisation «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Commentary upon the deficiencies of the opponent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:e4:o4:1
# text = Commentary upon the deficiencies of the opponent
1	Commentary	commentary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deficiencies	deficiency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	opponent	opponent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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