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# Exam question 1 · The YouTuber who is right about everything

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Identify the principal error in accepting advice on nutrition from a person whose expertise lies in a building game.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, expertise · **What happens:** identify, accept, lie · **To what, where:** principal error, advice, nutrition, building game

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 174 «The YouTuber who is right about everything» of the world 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/world/174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal error in accepting advice on nutrition from a person whose expertise lies in a building game.
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	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	accepting	accept	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nutrition	nutrition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	expertise	expertise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 error |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent error=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | gerund | you *not said here* | advice |  | nutrition |  | from a person | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent advice=Theme from person=Source |
| 3 | **lie** | present | expertise |  |  | a building game |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in game=Location |

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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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The person was too young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything:e1:o1:1
# text = The person was too young
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	young	young	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** | past | the person |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The game was insufficiently popular

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything:e1:o2:1
# text = The game was insufficiently popular
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	popular	popular	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** | past | the game |  |  |  |  | insufficiently, popular *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The advice was delivered in a video rather than in a printed book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything:e1:o3:1
# text = The advice was delivered in a video rather than in a printed book
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	4	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past · passive |  | the advice |  | a video |  | in a printed book | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Expertise in one field is treated as expertise in another

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:174-the-youtuber-who-is-right-about-everything:e1:o4:1
# text = Expertise in one field is treated as expertise in another
1	Expertise	expertise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	expertise	expertise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | present · passive |  | Expertise in one field |  | another |  | as expertise | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as expertise=Attribute |

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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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