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title: A boy in Leeds plays rugby wearing a chain necklace. What could happ… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rul… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds plays rugby wearing a chain necklace. What could happen? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

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A boy in Leeds plays rugby wearing a chain necklace. What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, rugby · **What happens:** play, wear, happen · **To what, where:** rugby, chain necklace

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Leeds plays rugby wearing a chain necklace.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:1
# text = A boy in Leeds plays rugby wearing a chain necklace.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | a boy in Leeds | rugby |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rugby=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | rugby *not said here* | a chain necklace |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent necklace=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:* What could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The chain could catch and hurt his neck or skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:o1:1
# text = The chain could catch and hurt his neck or skin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | could | the chain |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | infinitive | the chain *not said here* | chain's neck or skin |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He could lose points for wearing it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:o2:1
# text = He could lose points for wearing it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | could | He | points |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | He *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The chain could make the ball slip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:o3:1
# text = The chain could make the ball slip
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | the chain | the ball slip |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slip=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The chain would bring him good luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t8:o4:1
# text = The chain would bring him good luck
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | the chain | good luck | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination luck=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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