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title: Identify the sole player permitted to handle the ball, and the area… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the sole player permitted to handle the ball, and the area within which such handling is lawful. Exam question 1 of lesson 41 «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 1 · Football: positions, rules and scoring

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Identify the sole player permitted to handle the ball, and the area within which such handling is lawful.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, area · **What happens:** identify, permit, handle, be · **To what, where:** sole player, ball

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 41 «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:e1:1
# text = Identify the sole player permitted to handle the ball, and the area within which such handling is lawful.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	handling	handling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	lawful	lawful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sole player |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 2 | **permit** | participle |  | the sole player *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **handle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the area within such handling |  |  |  |  | lawful *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

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

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The goalkeeper, within their own penalty area

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:e1:o1:1
# text = The goalkeeper, within their own penalty area
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Any defender, within their own half of the field of play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:e1:o2:1
# text = Any defender, within their own half of the field of play
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The goalkeeper, anywhere on the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:e1:o3:1
# text = The goalkeeper, anywhere on the field
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The captain, anywhere on the field of play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:e1:o4:1
# text = The captain, anywhere on the field of play
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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