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title: It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three. Asc… — Cherry-picked clips and clickbait head… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three. Ascertain the percentage increase so described. Exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 2 · Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines

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It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three. Ascertain the percentage increase so described.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** recorded offences, you · **What happens:** give, record, rise, ascertain, describe · **To what, where:** It, two cases, percentage increase

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics 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/politics/33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:1
# text = It is given that recorded offences rose from two cases to three.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	offences	offence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | past | recorded offences |  |  | two cases |  | to three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from case=Initial\_Location to three=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Ascertain the percentage increase so described.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:2
# text = Ascertain the percentage increase so described.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	percentage	percentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the percentage increase |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=Topic |
| 2 | **describe** | participle |  | the percentage increase *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Thirty-three per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:o1:1
# text = Thirty-three per cent
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One hundred per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:o2:1
# text = One hundred per cent
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Fifty per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:o3:1
# text = Fifty per cent
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One hundred and fifty per cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:33-cherry-picked-clips-and-clickbait:e2:o4:1
# text = One hundred and fifty per cent
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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