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title: Grandad holding the controller upside down. Mia's cousin: «easy win… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad holding the controller upside down. Mia's cousin: «easy win lol». What happened? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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 2 · ★★★ · Family game night

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Grandad holding the controller upside down. Mia's cousin: «easy win lol». What happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad · **What happens:** hold, happen · **To what, where:** controller upside

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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/425-family-game-night/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad holding the controller upside down.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:1
# text = Grandad holding the controller upside down.
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund | Grandad | the controller upside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Theme |

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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:* Mia's cousin: «easy win lol».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:2
# text = Mia's cousin: «easy win lol».
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:3
# text = What happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Grandad won three times in a row

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:o1:1
# text = Grandad won three times in a row
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Grandad |  |  | a row | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in row=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Grandad gave up after just one lap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:o2:1
# text = Grandad gave up after just one lap
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | Grandad |  |  |  | after one lap |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grandad crashed every single race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:o3:1
# text = Grandad crashed every single race
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | past | Grandad | every single race |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Grandad just watched and did not play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t2:o4:1
# text = Grandad just watched and did not play
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **play** | past · do-support | Grandad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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