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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Scary films, games, hospitals and what… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the creaking of houses at night. Exam question 3 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 3 · Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the creaking of houses at night.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established facts, houses · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, creak · **To what, where:** response, creaking

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» 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/71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the creaking of houses at night.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	creaking	creaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the creaking of houses |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creaking=Experiencer |
| 4 | **creak** |  | houses |  |  |  |  |  | nom creaking «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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It occurs only in houses where a death has taken place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e3:o1:1
# text = It occurs only in houses where a death has taken place
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | It | houses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | a death |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It results from the presence of the spirits of the dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e3:o2:1
# text = It results from the presence of the spirits of the dead
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	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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It results from the cooling of materials and the action of wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e3:o3:1
# text = It results from the cooling of materials and the action of wind
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cooling	cooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool** |  |  | materials and the action of wind |  |  |  |  | nom cooling «process transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **act** |  | wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It indicates that an earthquake is imminent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:71-scary-films-games-hospitals-and-what-helps:e3:o4:1
# text = It indicates that an earthquake is imminent
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	imminent	imminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | a earthquake |  |  |  |  | imminent *property* | 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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