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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fear upon the performance of fine motor skills? Exam question 2 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 2 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fear upon the performance of fine motor skills?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, effect, perform · **To what, where:** effect, fear, fine motor skills

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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/68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the effect of fear upon the performance of fine motor skills?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the effect of fear upon the performance of fine motor skills |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **effect** |  |  | fear upon the performance of fine motor skills |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **perform** |  |  | fine motor skills |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication 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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Such skills are invariably enhanced

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:e2:o1:1
# text = Such skills are invariably enhanced
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	enhanced	enhance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enhance** | present · passive |  | Such skills |  |  |  | invariably *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Such skills are typically impaired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:e2:o2:1
# text = Such skills are typically impaired
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	typically	typically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	impaired	impair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impair** | present · passive |  | Such skills |  |  |  | typically *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Such skills are transferred to the coach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:e2:o3:1
# text = Such skills are transferred to the coach
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | present · passive |  | Such skills | the coach |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to coach=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Such skills are wholly unaffected

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:e2:o4:1
# text = Such skills are wholly unaffected
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Such skills |  |  |  |  | unaffected, wholly *property* | 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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