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title: Lily misses the ball five times at rounders. Her cousin's mates are… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily misses the ball five times at rounders. Her cousin's mates are laughing. What's the best way to handle it? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 466 «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 8 · ★ · Joining a game, and the shy kid

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Lily misses the ball five times at rounders. Her cousin's mates are laughing. What's the best way to handle it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lily, mates, best way · **What happens:** miss, laugh, be, handle · **To what, where:** ball, rounders, way

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 466 «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily misses the ball five times at rounders.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:1
# text = Lily misses the ball five times at rounders.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rounders	rounder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | Lily | the ball |  | rounders | time |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |

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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:* Her cousin's mates are laughing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:2
# text = Her cousin's mates are laughing.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present · progressive | Lily's cousin's mates |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What's the best way to handle it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:3
# text = What's the best way to handle it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best way |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **handle** | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Storm off and go home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:o1:1
# text = Storm off and go home
1	Storm	storm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **storm off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Laugh at herself and keep playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:o2:1
# text = Laugh at herself and keep playing
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at herself *= she* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Say rounders is stupid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:o3:1
# text = Say rounders is stupid
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	rounders	rounder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | rounders |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rounder=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hit someone with the bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid:t8:o4:1
# text = Hit someone with the bat
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | someone |  |  |  | with the bat | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent someone=Patient with bat=Instrument |

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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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