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title: Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used bl… — Cheating in games and sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used black?» What's the honest answer? Test 3 of lesson 341 «Cheating in games and 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 3 · Cheating in games and sports

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Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used black?» What's the honest answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, honest answer · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** quiz score, blue

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This is test 3 of lesson 341 «Cheating in games and 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/341-cheating-in-games-and-sports/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used black?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:1
# text = Teacher, cold: «Why is your quiz score in blue when everyone used black?»
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	quiz	quiz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | your quiz score |  | blue |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn eat-39.1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the honest answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:2
# text = What's the honest answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the honest answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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«Someone else changed it»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:o1:1
# text = «Someone else changed it»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** *in a quote* | past | Someone | it |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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«You must have written it in blue yourself, miss, it was like that»

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:o2:1
# text = «You must have written it in blue yourself, miss, it was like that»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	miss	miss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive |  | You |  | blue |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  | like that | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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«I changed it. Sorry, I'd rather be in the middle honestly»

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*Sentence 1:* «I changed it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:o3:1
# text = «I changed it.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** *in a quote* | past | I | it |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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*Sentence 2:* Sorry, I'd rather be in the middle honestly»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:o3:2
# text = Sorry, I'd rather be in the middle honestly»
1	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | I |  |  | the middle |  | honestly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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«My pen ran out»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports:t3:o4:1
# text = «My pen ran out»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** *in a quote* | past | My pen |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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