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title: A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the mat… — Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes · tree and pragmatics
description: A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match. Why? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 8 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes

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A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** team · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** goalkeeper gloves

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:1
# text = A team checks the goalkeeper gloves, helmets and nets before the match.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | a team | the goalkeeper gloves and helmets and nets |  |  | before the match |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Broken gear can cause injuries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:o1:1
# text = Broken gear can cause injuries
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can | Broken gear | injuries |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To make the match start later and last longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:o2:1
# text = To make the match start later and last longer
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the match |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the match *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **last** | infinitive | the match *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because gear sometimes changes colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:o3:1
# text = Because gear sometimes changes colour
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | gear | colour |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To count how much gear the club owns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t8:o4:1
# text = To count how much gear the club owns
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | to-infinitive |  | much gear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **own** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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