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title: «zara's beaten u at every racing game theo». What does this show? — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: «zara's beaten u at every racing game theo». What does this show? Test 6 of lesson 401 «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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 6 · Fighting games at a friend's house

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«zara's beaten u at every racing game theo». What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** this · **What happens:** beat, show · **To what, where:** u, game theo

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This is test 6 of lesson 401 «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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/401-fighting-games-at-a-friends/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «zara's beaten u at every racing game theo».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:1
# text = «zara's beaten u at every racing game theo».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	zara	zara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	theo	theo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** *in a quote* | participle |  | u |  | every game theo |  |  | 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 does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Racing games are for girls, fighting games are for boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:o1:1
# text = Racing games are for girls, fighting games are for boys
1	Racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	boys	boy	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 | Racing games |  |  |  |  | for girls and fighting games | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | girls and fighting games |  |  |  |  | for boys | tree rules |

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

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Being good at games has nothing to do with boy or girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:o2:1
# text = Being good at games has nothing to do with boy or girl
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | games |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with boy or girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Theo let her win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:o3:1
# text = Theo let her win
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Theo | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Zara must cheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends:t6:o4:1
# text = Zara must cheat
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cheat	cheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | must | Zara |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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