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title: chess - i took more pieces than him so i won right? — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: chess - i took more pieces than him so i won right? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 13 · ★ · Safe toys and fair board games

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
chess - i took more pieces than him so i won right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** take, win · **To what, where:** chess

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 302 «Safe toys and fair board games» 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/302-toys-and-board-games/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t13:1
# text = chess - i took more pieces than him so i won right?
1	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | i | chess |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | past | i |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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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No, you win by checkmate, trapping the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t13:o1:1
# text = No, you win by checkmate, trapping the king
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	checkmate	checkmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trapping	trap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | you |  |  |  |  | by checkmate | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trap** | gerund | you *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, most pieces taken wins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, most pieces taken wins
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's a draw if he has more pawns left at the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t13:o3:1
# text = It's a draw if he has more pawns left at the end
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	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	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	pawns	pawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a draw |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he | more pawns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawn=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | more pawns *not said here* |  |  | at the end |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you took the queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, if you took the queen
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | you |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument queen=Destination |

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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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