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title: my mate reckons in chess u win by taking all the pieces. right? — Sharing toys and playing board games f… · tree and pragmatics
description: my mate reckons in chess u win by taking all the pieces. right? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

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my mate reckons in chess u win by taking all the pieces. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, u · **What happens:** reckon, win, take · **To what, where:** chess, pieces

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 242 «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t12:1
# text = my mate reckons in chess u win by taking all the pieces. right?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | my mate |  |  | chess |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | present | u | chess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | u *not said here* | all pieces |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, and the queen must go first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, and the queen must go first
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | must | the queen |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, the last piece left wins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, the last piece left wins
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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You win by reaching the far row

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t12:o3:1
# text = You win by reaching the far row
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | You *not said here* | the far row |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent row=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, you win by checkmate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t12:o4:1
# text = No, you win by checkmate
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	checkmate	checkmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | you |  |  |  |  | by checkmate | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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