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title: «I lost to a smurf, I'm actually trash at this game». What's true? — Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins» · tree and pragmatics
description: «I lost to a smurf, I'm actually trash at this game». What's true? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 408 «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» 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 · ★★ · Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»

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«I lost to a smurf, I'm actually trash at this game». What's true?

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

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 408 «Smurfs, cheaters and «infinite coins»» 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/408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «I lost to a smurf, I'm actually trash at this game».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:1
# text = «I lost to a smurf, I'm actually trash at this game».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smurf	smurf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	trash	trash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  | to a smurf | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | this game |  | actually, trash *property* | 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's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Losing to a much stronger player says little about you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:o1:1
# text = Losing to a much stronger player says little about you
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a stronger player | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Losing | little |  |  |  | about you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You should never play again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:o2:1
# text = You should never play again
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | should | You |  |  |  | again |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, you're trash, quit now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:o3:1
# text = Yes, you're trash, quit now
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	trash	trash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	quit	quit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you | trash |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **quit** | infinitive | trash |  |  |  | now |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Smurfs only ever beat players who are really bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:408-smurfs-cheaters-and-hacks:t7:o4:1
# text = Smurfs only ever beat players who are really bad
1	Smurfs	smurf	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | ever | beat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | players |  |  |  |  | bad *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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