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title: Theo's red in the face, fist tight round the controller after 3 loss… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo's red in the face, fist tight round the controller after 3 losses. Wisest thing? Test 7 · ★ 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.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Sore losers and button-mashers

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Theo's red in the face, fist tight round the controller after 3 losses. Wisest thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Theo's red in the face, fist tight round the controller after 3 losses.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:1
# text = Theo's red in the face, fist tight round the controller after 3 losses.
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fist	fist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	losses	loss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Wisest thing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:2
# text = Wisest thing?
1	Wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yell at whoever won

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:o1:1
# text = Yell at whoever won
1	Yell	yell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obj	_	_
4	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | whoever |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Play faster to win it back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:o2:1
# text = Play faster to win it back
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Put it down and walk off for a minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:o3:1
# text = Put it down and walk off for a minute
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 2 | **walk off** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Throw it, the sofa's soft so it won't break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers:t7:o4:1
# text = Throw it, the sofa's soft so it won't break
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **break** | future | sofa |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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