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title: Noah: "Pads are for wimps, I'll be grand." What's true? — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah: "Pads are for wimps, I'll be grand." What's true? Test 10 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Football: positions, rules and scoring

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Noah: "Pads are for wimps, I'll be grand." What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pads, Noah · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 of lesson 41 «Football: positions, rules and scoring» 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/41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Noah: "Pads are for wimps, I'll be grand."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:1
# text = Noah: "Pads are for wimps, I'll be grand."
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wimps	wimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Pads |  |  |  |  | for wimps | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Noah and wimps |  |  |  |  | grand *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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:2
# text = What's true?
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	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pads are only for the keepers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:o1:1
# text = Pads are only for the keepers
1	Pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pads |  |  |  |  | for the keepers | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only little kids wear pads, pros don't

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:o2:1
# text = Only little kids wear pads, pros don't
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	pros	pro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | little kids | pads |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pad=Source |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | pros |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Every player, even at the World Cup, must wear them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:o3:1
# text = Every player, even at the World Cup, must wear them
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cup	Cup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | must | every player and the World Cup | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pads slow you down so pros skip them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t10:o4:1
# text = Pads slow you down so pros skip them
1	Pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	pros	pro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | present | Pads | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **skip** | present | pros | Pads *= pad* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent |

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