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title: Ascertain the number of points awarded for a touchdown in American f… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the number of points awarded for a touchdown in American football. Exam question 4 of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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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# Exam question 4 · Soccer, American football and baseball

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Ascertain the number of points awarded for a touchdown in American football.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, award · **To what, where:** number, points

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday 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/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the number of points awarded for a touchdown in American football.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	awarded	award	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	touchdown	touchdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of points |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **award** | participle |  | points *not said here* |  |  |  | for a touchdown in American football *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for touchdown=Goal |

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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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Three points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:e4:o1:1
# text = Three points
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:e4:o2:1
# text = Ten points
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One point

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:e4:o3:1
# text = One point
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Six points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:e4:o4:1
# text = Six points
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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