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title: Coach: "Freddie's just better, Max is rubbish." Max is 11 months you… — Growing and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Coach: "Freddie's just better, Max is rubbish." Max is 11 months younger. What's fairer? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Growing and sport» of the medicine 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 7 · ★★ · Growing and sport

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Coach: "Freddie's just better, Max is rubbish." Max is 11 months younger. What's fairer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Max · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rubbish

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Growing and sport» of the medicine 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/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Coach: "Freddie's just better, Max is rubbish."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:1
# text = Coach: "Freddie's just better, Max is rubbish."
1	Coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Max | rubbish |  |  |  |  | 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:* Max is 11 months younger.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:2
# text = Max is 11 months younger.
1	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Max |  |  |  | month | young *property* | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What's fairer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:3
# text = What's fairer?
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	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only pick the tallest kids every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:o1:1
# text = Only pick the tallest kids every time
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tallest kids |  |  | time |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drop all the summer-born kids from the team

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:o2:1
# text = Drop all the summer-born kids from the team
1	Drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | all born kids |  | the team |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kid=Theme from team=Destination |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Never pick younger players again for matches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:o3:1
# text = Never pick younger players again for matches
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | younger players |  |  | again | for matches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent player=Theme for match=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Give younger players time, many catch up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:40-growing-and-sport:t7:o4:1
# text = Give younger players time, many catch up
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **catch up** | present | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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