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title: «LAG!!» Kai screams, but his game's smooth as butter. What'll happen… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: «LAG!!» Kai screams, but his game's smooth as butter. What'll happen next time it's real? Test 1 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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 1 · Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi

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«LAG!!» Kai screams, but his game's smooth as butter. What'll happen next time it's real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kai, butter · **What happens:** scream, happen, be · **To what, where:** next time

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This is test 1 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «LAG!!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:1
# text = «LAG!!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	LAG	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Kai screams, but his game's smooth as butter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:2
# text = Kai screams, but his game's smooth as butter.
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	screams	scream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | Kai |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What'll happen next time it's real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:3
# text = What'll happen next time it's real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | future |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | butter | next time *not said here* |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Nobody will believe him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:o1:1
# text = Nobody will believe him
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | future | Nobody | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everyone will rush to help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:o2:1
# text = Everyone will rush to help
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | future | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The game will give him the win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:o3:1
# text = The game will give him the win
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | the game | the win | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient win=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His ping will drop to zero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t1:o4:1
# text = His ping will drop to zero
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ping	ping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | future | His ping |  |  | zero |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to zero=Trajectory |

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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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