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title: A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone. What happens? — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone. What happens? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball

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A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone. What happens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** batter · **What happens:** have, throw, happen · **To what, where:** four balls, strike zone

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:1
# text = A batter has four balls thrown outside the strike zone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a batter | four balls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | four balls *not said here* |  | the strike zone |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent outside zone=Destination |

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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 happens?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:2
# text = What happens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He is out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:o1:1
# text = He is out
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He walks to first base

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:o2:1
# text = He walks to first base
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | He |  |  |  |  | to first base *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to base=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He bats again from zero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:o3:1
# text = He bats again from zero
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His team gets a run

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t3:o4:1
# text = His team gets a run
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | His team | a run |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer run=Stimulus |

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