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title: A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays". What is true? Test 2 · ★ 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball

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A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays". What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** say, play, be · **To what, where:** football · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 248 «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:1
# text = A boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston both say "I play football on Saturdays".
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	both	both	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | present | a boy in Manchester and a boy in Boston *= boy* | football |  |  | saturday |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They probably play different games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:o1:1
# text = They probably play different games
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | They | different games |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Neither plays a team sport

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:o2:1
# text = Neither plays a team sport
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Neither | a team sport |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They play the same game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:o3:1
# text = They play the same game
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | They | the same game |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Football means rugby in both places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t2:o4:1
# text = Football means rugby in both places
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Football | rugby |  |  |  | in both places | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rugby=Theme in place=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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