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title: «everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player». What else… — Jake, always in bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: «everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player». What else could be true? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 372 «Jake, always in bruises» 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 · ★ · Jake, always in bruises

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«everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player». What else could be true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, Jake · **What happens:** pick, be · **To what, where:** Jake, best player

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 372 «Jake, always in bruises» 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/372-jake-always-in-bruises/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:1
# text = «everyone picks Jake first so he must be the best player».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** *in a quote* | present | everyone | Jake |  |  |  | first *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | Jake | the best player |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 else could be true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:2
# text = What else could be true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They are all his cousins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:o1:1
# text = They are all his cousins
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | his cousins |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They might be scared not to pick him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:o2:1
# text = They might be scared not to pick him
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | They |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **pick** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He pays them to pick him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:o3:1
# text = He pays them to pick him
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | He | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset |
| 2 | **pick** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He is the only one in the class who has proper football boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:372-jake-always-in-bruises:t8:o4:1
# text = He is the only one in the class who has proper football boots
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | He | the only one |  | the class |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the only one | proper football boots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |

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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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