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title: playing hockey, coach says mouthguard, why — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: playing hockey, coach says mouthguard, why Test 13 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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 13 · ★ · Skating and sports safety

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playing hockey, coach says mouthguard, why

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** coach · **What happens:** play, say · **To what, where:** hockey, mouthguard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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/6-skating-and-sports-safety/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t13:1
# text = playing hockey, coach says mouthguard, why
1	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	mouthguard	mouthguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | hockey |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hockey=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | coach | mouthguard |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouthguard=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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It protects your teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t13:o1:1
# text = It protects your teeth
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | present | It | your teeth |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It helps you breathe faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t13:o2:1
# text = It helps you breathe faster
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | It | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It keeps your mouth warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t13:o3:1
# text = It keeps your mouth warm
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | your mouth |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes you run quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:6-skating-and-sports-safety:t13:o4:1
# text = It makes you run quicker
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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