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title: Why should a young football player learn to tackle with the head up? — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should a young football player learn to tackle with the head up? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Soccer, American football and baseball

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Why should a young football player learn to tackle with the head up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** young football player · **What happens:** learn, tackle up

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t7:1
# text = Why should a young football player learn to tackle with the head up?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | should | a young football player |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tackle up** | to-infinitive | a young football player *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the head | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument |

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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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It is easier to see the cheerleaders at the side of the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t7:o1:1
# text = It is easier to see the cheerleaders at the side of the field
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	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cheerleaders	cheerleader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the cheerleaders |  | the side of the field |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cheerleader=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The helmet falls off otherwise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t7:o2:1
# text = The helmet falls off otherwise
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | present | the helmet |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Tackling with the head down can injure the neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t7:o3:1
# text = Tackling with the head down can injure the neck
1	Tackling	tackle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tackle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the head; down *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument |
| 2 | **injure** | can |  | the neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes the tackle count double in the score

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball:t7:o4:1
# text = It makes the tackle count double in the score
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	tackle	tackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the tackle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive | the tackle *not said here* | double |  | the score |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Theme |

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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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