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title: Monopoly board flipped across the room. What rule could stop it next… — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Monopoly board flipped across the room. What rule could stop it next time? Test 11 of lesson 475 «The row over a 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 right.
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# Test 11 · The row over a game

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Monopoly board flipped across the room. What rule could stop it next time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rule · **What happens:** flip, stop · **To what, where:** Monopoly board, room, board

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This is test 11 of lesson 475 «The row over a 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/475-the-row-over-a-game/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Monopoly board flipped across the room.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:1
# text = Monopoly board flipped across the room.
1	Monopoly	Monopoly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	flipped	flip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flip** | participle |  | Monopoly board *not said here* |  | the room |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 rule could stop it next time?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:2
# text = What rule could stop it next time?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | could | what rule | board |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

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

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Agree first: no flipping, no sulking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:o1:1
# text = Agree first: no flipping, no sulking
1	Agree	agree	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	flipping	flipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	sulking	sulking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | imperative | you *not said here* | no flipping and no sulking |  |  |  | first *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never let cousins play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:o2:1
# text = Never let cousins play
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | cousins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | cousins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Glue the board down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:o3:1
# text = Glue the board down
1	Glue	glue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glue down** | imperative | you *not said here* | the board |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only play with whoever won last time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game:t11:o4:1
# text = Only play with whoever won last time
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | past | whoever |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «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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