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title: Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner». What's true? — Just one more game · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner». What's true? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 417 «Just one more game» 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 11 · ★ · Just one more game

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Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner». What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** real gamers · **What happens:** not stop, be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 417 «Just one more game» 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/417-just-one-more-game/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:417-just-one-more-game:t11:1
# text = Mate: «pfft, real gamers don't stop for dinner».
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	pfft	pfft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gamers	gamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** *in a quote* | present · do-support | real gamers |  |  |  |  | for dinner | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:417-just-one-more-game:t11:2
# 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 {#o1}

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Real gamers skip meals to stay on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:417-just-one-more-game:t11:o1:1
# text = Real gamers skip meals to stay on
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gamers	gamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | present | Real gamers | meals |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Agent |
| 2 | **stay on** | to-infinitive | Real gamers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Stopping when you need to is normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:417-just-one-more-game:t11:o2:1
# text = Stopping when you need to is normal
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	xcomp	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | present | Stopping |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Only beginners stop for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:417-just-one-more-game:t11:o3:1
# text = Only beginners stop for dinner
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	beginners	beginner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | beginners |  |  |  |  | for dinner | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dinner can be eaten during the match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:417-just-one-more-game:t11:o4:1
# text = Dinner can be eaten during the match
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can · passive |  | Dinner |  |  | during the match |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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