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title: Why are rugby mouthguards worn even by young players? — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are rugby mouthguards worn even by young players? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

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Why are rugby mouthguards worn even by young players?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** rugby mouthguards

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t7:1
# text = Why are rugby mouthguards worn even by young players?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mouthguards	mouthguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | rugby mouthguards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  | rugby mouthguards *not said here* |  |  |  | by young players | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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They protect the teeth and mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t7:o1:1
# text = They protect the teeth and mouth
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	protect	protect	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	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | present | They | the teeth and mouth |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They help the players breathe more deeply while running

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t7:o2:1
# text = They help the players breathe more deeply while running
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	help	help	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	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | the players |  |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They taste nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t7:o3:1
# text = They taste nice
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	taste	taste	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | They |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They keep the mouth warm on cold winter mornings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey:t7:o4:1
# text = They keep the mouth warm on cold winter mornings
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	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	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | They | the mouth |  |  | morning | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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