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title: ★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA. Each player plays every o… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA. Each player plays every other player once. How many games? Test 10 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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 10 · Big brothers

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★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA. Each player plays every other player once. How many games?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, player · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** FIFA, other player

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This is test 10 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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/501-big-brothers/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Cian, Tadhg and two friends play FIFA.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cian	Cian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Tadhg	Tadhg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	FIFA	FIFA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | ★ ★ Cian and Tadhg and two friends | FIFA |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifa=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:* Each player plays every other player once.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:2
# text = Each player plays every other player once.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | each player | every other player |  |  |  | once *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* How many games?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:3
# text = How many games?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:o2:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:o3:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:501-big-brothers:t10:o4:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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