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# Exam question 3 · Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs

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Identify the principal reason for which children frequently suffer anxiety upon overhearing parental conversations concerning finances.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, children · **What happens:** identify, suffer, overhear · **To what, where:** principal reason, anxiety, parental conversations

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» of the reflection 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/reflection/8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs:e3:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which children frequently suffer anxiety upon overhearing parental conversations concerning finances.
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	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl	_	_
10	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	overhearing	overhear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	concerning	concerning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	finances	finances	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **suffer** | present | children | anxiety |  |  |  | for the principal reason; frequently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anxiety=Stimulus for which=Attribute |
| 3 | **overhear** | gerund | children *not said here* | parental conversations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Children are incapable of any comprehension of financial matters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs:e3:o1:1
# text = Children are incapable of any comprehension of financial matters
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	incapable	incapable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	financial	financial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | of any comprehension of financial matters; incapable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **comprehend** |  |  | financial matters |  |  |  |  | nom comprehension «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Partial information is supplemented by the child's imagining of the worst

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs:e3:o2:1
# text = Partial information is supplemented by the child's imagining of the worst
1	Partial	partial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	supplemented	supplement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	imagining	imagining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supplement** | present · passive | the child's imagining | Partial information |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Children are customarily responsible for the household finances

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs:e3:o3:1
# text = Children are customarily responsible for the household finances
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	finances	finances	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | for the household finances; customarily, responsible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Parental conversations concerning money are invariably accurate predictions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:8-scary-things-in-the-world-news-strangers-war-and-what-ifs:e3:o4:1
# text = Parental conversations concerning money are invariably accurate predictions
1	Parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	conversations	conversation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **concern** | gerund | Parental conversations *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus money=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Parental conversations | accurate predictions |  |  |  |  | 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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