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title: State when playing fairly matters most. — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom priva… · tree and pragmatics
description: State when playing fairly matters most. Exam question 4 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Exam question 4 · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

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State when playing fairly matters most.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** State · **What happens:** play, matter

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e4:1
# text = State when playing fairly matters most.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present | State |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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When one is losing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e4:o1:1
# text = When one is losing
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · progressive | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only during official matches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e4:o2:1
# text = Only during official matches
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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When one is winning by a great margin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e4:o3:1
# text = When one is winning by a great margin
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present · progressive | one |  |  |  |  | by a great margin | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only when an adult is watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:e4:o4:1
# text = Only when an adult is watching
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · progressive | a adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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