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description: Ascertain the conditions principally associated with greater life expectancy within a population. Exam question 4 of lesson 52 «Getting old: how long people and animals live» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 4 · Getting old: how long people and animals live

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Ascertain the conditions principally associated with greater life expectancy within a population.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, associate · **To what, where:** conditions

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 52 «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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/52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the conditions principally associated with greater life expectancy within a population.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	principally	principally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	expectancy	expectancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 conditions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Topic |
| 2 | **associate** | participle |  | the conditions *not said here* |  |  |  | with greater life expectancy within a population; principally *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with expectancy=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Clean water, adequate nutrition, medical care and peace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live:e4:o1:1
# text = Clean water, adequate nutrition, medical care and peace
1	Clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nutrition	nutrition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	medical	medical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Residence in a cold climate exclusively, far from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live:e4:o2:1
# text = Residence in a cold climate exclusively, far from the sea
1	Residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Membership of a particular sporting club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live:e4:o3:1
# text = Membership of a particular sporting club
1	Membership	membership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The avoidance of all physical exercise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:52-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live:e4:o4:1
# text = The avoidance of all physical exercise
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avoidance	avoidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** |  |  | all physical exercise |  |  |  |  | nom avoidance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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