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title: Jake: «that penalty was a joke, I'm gonna lamp the post». What's the… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake: «that penalty was a joke, I'm gonna lamp the post». What's the wiser move? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 472 «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 10 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully

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Jake: «that penalty was a joke, I'm gonna lamp the post». What's the wiser move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jake, I, wiser move · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** joke, gonna lamp

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 472 «Rival teams and the older bully» 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/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake: «that penalty was a joke, I'm gonna lamp the post».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:1
# text = Jake: «that penalty was a joke, I'm gonna lamp the post».
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	gonna	gonna	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Jake | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | gonna lamp |  |  |  |  | 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 the wiser move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:2
# text = What's the wiser move?
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	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 wiser move |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Walk off the anger without kicking anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:o1:1
# text = Walk off the anger without kicking anything
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk off** | imperative | you *not said here* | the anger |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Source |
| 2 | **kick** | gerund | you *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Kick the ball at the crowd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:o2:1
# text = Kick the ball at the crowd
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ball |  | the crowd |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Patient at crowd=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kick the referee instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:o3:1
# text = Kick the referee instead
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* | the referee |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent referee=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kick the post as hard as he can to get it all out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t10:o4:1
# text = Kick the post as hard as he can to get it all out
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* | the post |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent post=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | post |  |  |  | out *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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