--- title: Teacher: «What wins more matches over a whole season, luck or practi… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Teacher: «What wins more matches over a whole season, luck or practice?» Test 11 · ★ of lesson 398 «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Sore losers and button-mashers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Sore losers and button-mashers Teacher: «What wins more matches over a whole season, luck or practice?» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** win · **To what, where:** more matches This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 398 «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t11:1 # text = Teacher: «What wins more matches over a whole season, luck or practice?» 1 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** *in a quote* | present | Teacher | more matches | | | season | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality | 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} Practice ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t11:o1:1 # text = Practice 1 Practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Button-mashing ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t11:o2:1 # text = Button-mashing 1 Button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 mashing mashing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The best controller ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t11:o3:1 # text = The best controller 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 controller controller NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Luck ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t11:o4:1 # text = Luck 1 Luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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