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title: «girls can't box, that's just a fact». Is it? — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: «girls can't box, that's just a fact». Is it? Test 2 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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 2 · Maddie the tomboy

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«girls can't box, that's just a fact». Is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** that, fact · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fact

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This is test 2 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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/378-maddie-the-tomboy/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «girls can't box, that's just a fact».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:1
# text = «girls can't box, that's just a fact».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | that | a fact |  |  |  |  | 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:* Is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:2
# text = Is it?
1	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | fact |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, many girls and women box in clubs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:o1:1
# text = No, many girls and women box in clubs
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only girls over 30 can box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:o2:1
# text = Only girls over 30 can box
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, it's against the rules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:o3:1
# text = Yes, it's against the rules
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rules	rule	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** | present | it |  |  |  |  | against the rules | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, girls just aren't strong enough to box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, girls just aren't strong enough to box
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | girls |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |

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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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