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title: Ascertain the customary period within which Muslims inter the deceas… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the customary period within which Muslims inter the deceased. Exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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 choice was wrong
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# Exam question 4 · Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave

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Ascertain the customary period within which Muslims inter the deceased.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, decease · **To what, where:** customary period

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 63 «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the customary period within which Muslims inter the deceased.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	inter	int	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 customary period |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic |
| 2 | **decease** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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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Within forty days of the death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave:e4:o1:1
# text = Within forty days of the death
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Within one calendar year of the death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave:e4:o2:1
# text = Within one calendar year of the death
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Within one day, where practicable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave:e4:o3:1
# text = Within one day, where practicable
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
6	practicable	practicable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At a date chosen by the eldest son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave:e4:o4:1
# text = At a date chosen by the eldest son
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | participle |  | a date *not said here* |  |  |  | by the eldest son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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