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title: Why might a referee ask a player to remove a necklace? — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a referee ask a player to remove a necklace? Test 4 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

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Why might a referee ask a player to remove a necklace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** referee, player · **What happens:** ask, remove · **To what, where:** player, necklace

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t4:1
# text = Why might a referee ask a player to remove a necklace?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | might | a referee | a player |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent player=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a player *not said here* | a necklace |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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It can catch and hurt the player or others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t4:o1:1
# text = It can catch and hurt the player or others
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | infinitive |  | the player or others |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer player=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Necklaces are too shiny and dazzle the referee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t4:o2:1
# text = Necklaces are too shiny and dazzle the referee
1	Necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dazzle	dazzle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Necklaces |  |  |  |  | shiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dazzle** | infinitive | Necklaces *not said here* | the referee |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus referee=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Necklaces slow the game down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t4:o3:1
# text = Necklaces slow the game down
1	Necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | present | Necklaces | the game |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent game=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is a rule about colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t4:o4:1
# text = It is a rule about colours
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a rule |  |  |  | about colours | tree rules |

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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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