--- title: A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. What's smartest? — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. What's smartest? Test 6 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Rival teams and the older bully](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Rival teams and the older bully A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. What's smartest? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** keep, shove, be · **To what, where:** Maddie, back This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:1 # text = A girl keeps shoving Maddie behind the umpire's back. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 shoving shove VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 umpire umpire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | a girl | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shove** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | Maddie | | the umpire's back | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent maddie=Theme behind back=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's smartest? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:2 # text = What's smartest? 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 smartest smart ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Shove back hard, she started it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:o1:1 # text = Shove back hard, she started it 1 Shove shove VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shove back** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | past | she | it | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Tell her coach at the break ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:o2:1 # text = Tell her coach at the break 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 coach coach 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 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | her coach | | the break | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Walk off the court for good ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:o3:1 # text = Walk off the court for good 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 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk off** | imperative | you *not said here* | the court | | | | for good | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Source | ### Option 4 {#o4} Trip her when nobody's looking ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully:t6:o4:1 # text = Trip her when nobody's looking 1 Trip trip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 4 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trip** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent | | 2 | **look** | present · progressive | nobody | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | **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. 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