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title: Identify the direction in which the ball may be passed in rugby. — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the direction in which the ball may be passed in rugby. Exam question 1 of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 1 · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

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Identify the direction in which the ball may be passed in rugby.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, pass · **To what, where:** direction, ball

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:e1:1
# text = Identify the direction in which the ball may be passed in rugby.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the direction |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | may · passive |  | the ball |  | the direction |  | in rugby | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in which=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Upwards only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:e1:o1:1
# text = Upwards only
1	Upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Forwards only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:e1:o2:1
# text = Forwards only
1	Forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Backwards or sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:e1:o3:1
# text = Backwards or sideways
1	Backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In any direction at will

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:e1:o4:1
# text = In any direction at will
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

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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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