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description: Identify the principal relationship obtaining between rights and duties. Exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Exam question 2 · Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties

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Identify the principal relationship obtaining between rights and duties.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, principal relationship · **What happens:** identify, obtain · **To what, where:** principal relationship

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal relationship obtaining between rights and duties.
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	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 relationship |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | the principal relationship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between rights and duties | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 {#o1}

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Duties are owed solely by those devoid of rights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:e2:o1:1
# text = Duties are owed solely by those devoid of rights
1	Duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	owed	owe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
7	devoid	devoid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present · passive | those | Duties |  |  |  | solely *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rights and duties are wholly unconnected

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:e2:o2:1
# text = Rights and duties are wholly unconnected
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unconnected	unconnected	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 | Rights and duties |  |  |  |  | unconnected, wholly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The right of one person imposes upon others a duty to respect it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:e2:o3:1
# text = The right of one person imposes upon others a duty to respect it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	imposes	impose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | present | the right of one person | a duty |  |  |  | upon others | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme |
| 2 | **respect** | to-infinitive | the right of one person *not said here* | duty |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rights pertain exclusively to adults and duties to minors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:e2:o4:1
# text = Rights pertain exclusively to adults and duties to minors
1	Rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pertain	pertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	minors	minor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pertain** | present | Rights |  |  |  |  | to adults and duties; to minors; exclusively *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to adult=Co-Theme |

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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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