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title: A boy keeps peeking at his friend's cards. Why is that wrong? — Sharing toys and playing board games f… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy keeps peeking at his friend's cards. Why is that wrong? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Sharing toys and playing board games fairly

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A boy keeps peeking at his friend's cards. Why is that wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, that · **What happens:** keep, peek, be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy keeps peeking at his friend's cards.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:1
# text = A boy keeps peeking at his friend's cards.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	peeking	peek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **peek** | gerund | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at boy's friend's cards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at card=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why is that wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:2
# text = Why is that wrong?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is only wrong in proper tournaments with prizes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:o1:1
# text = It is only wrong in proper tournaments with prizes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tournaments	tournament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  | proper tournaments with prizes |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is fine as long as he does not win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:o2:1
# text = It is fine as long as he does not win
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **win** | present · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It makes the game unfair and dishonest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:o3:1
# text = It makes the game unfair and dishonest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the game |  |  |  | unfair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material game=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It slows the game down a little bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games:t8:o4:1
# text = It slows the game down a little bit
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | present | It | the game |  |  |  | down a little bit | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent game=Patient |

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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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