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title: my cousin says football means soccer in america. true? — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rul… · tree and pragmatics
description: my cousin says football means soccer in america. true? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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 12 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

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my cousin says football means soccer in america. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cousin, football · **What happens:** say, mean · **To what, where:** soccer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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/304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t12:1
# text = my cousin says football means soccer in america. true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	america	america	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | football | soccer |  |  |  | in america | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot soccer=Theme in america=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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No, in America it means rugby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t12:o1:1
# text = No, in America it means rugby
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it | rugby |  |  |  | in America | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot rugby=Theme in america=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, football means soccer everywhere, even in the USA and Canada

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, football means soccer everywhere, even in the USA and Canada
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | football | soccer |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, in the USA it means American football

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t12:o3:1
# text = No, in the USA it means American football
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | USA | American football |  |  |  | in the USA | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot football=Theme in usa=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only in schools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t12:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only in schools
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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