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title: In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a ga… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game. What is a quick fair way to decide? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

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In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game. What is a quick fair way to decide?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** keep, argue, go, be, decide · **To what, where:** Melbourne, game, quick fair way

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:1
# text = In Melbourne, Josh and Kai keep arguing about who goes first in a game.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Josh	Josh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  |  |  | Melbourne and Josh and Kai |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | a game |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in game=Location |

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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:* What is a quick fair way to decide?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:2
# text = What is a quick fair way to decide?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a quick fair way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Whoever shouts the loudest and first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:o1:1
# text = Whoever shouts the loudest and first
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shouts	shout	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	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Whoever | the loudest |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loud=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bigger boy goes first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:o2:1
# text = The bigger boy goes first
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the bigger boy |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The one who owns the ball always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:o3:1
# text = The one who owns the ball always
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | the one | the ball |  |  |  | always *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ball=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rock, paper, scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t3:o4:1
# text = Rock, paper, scissors
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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