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title: A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry. What shows good spor… — Handshakes, waves and greetings around… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry. What shows good sportsmanship? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 3 · ★ · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world

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A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry. What shows good sportsmanship?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** lose, feel, show · **To what, where:** final, good sportsmanship

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. 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/everyday/124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:1
# text = A boy in Texas loses the final and feels angry.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	final	final	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | a boy in Texas | the final |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent final=Eventuality |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a boy in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What shows good sportsmanship?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:2
# text = What shows good sportsmanship?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sportsmanship	sportsmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  | good sportsmanship |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sportsmanship=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Shaking hands and saying "Good game" anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:o1:1
# text = Shaking hands and saying "Good game" anyway
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | Good game |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shaking hands but looking away angrily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:o2:1
# text = Shaking hands but looking away angrily
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **look away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | angrily, away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Telling the winners that the referee cheated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:o3:1
# text = Telling the winners that the referee cheated
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winners	winner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the winners |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winner=Recipient |
| 2 | **cheat** | participle · passive |  | the winners |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Refusing to shake hands until he calms down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:124-handshakes-waves-and-local-customs:t3:o4:1
# text = Refusing to shake hands until he calms down
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	calms	calm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | to-infinitive |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **calm down** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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