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title: Kai: "Shut it, I got the ball first!" Studs on the striker's ankle.… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai: "Shut it, I got the ball first!" Studs on the striker's ankle. Who's right? Test 6 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 6 · Football: positions, rules and scoring

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Kai: "Shut it, I got the ball first!" Studs on the striker's ankle. Who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kai, I · **What happens:** shut, get, be · **To what, where:** it, ball

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kai: "Shut it, I got the ball first!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:1
# text = Kai: "Shut it, I got the ball first!"
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** *in a quote* | infinitive | Kai | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | past | I | the ball |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |

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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:* Studs on the striker's ankle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:2
# text = Studs on the striker's ankle.
1	Studs	stud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	striker	striker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* Who's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:3
# text = Who's right?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	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 |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody: tackles from behind can't be fouls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:o1:1
# text = Nobody: tackles from behind can't be fouls
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	tackles	tackle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	fouls	foul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | can |  | fouls |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Kai: getting the ball first is always fair, whatever the studs did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:o2:1
# text = Kai: getting the ball first is always fair, whatever the studs did
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	studs	stud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  | the ball |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Kai |  |  |  |  | always, fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | the studs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kai, but only if he says sorry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:o3:1
# text = Kai, but only if he says sorry
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: apologize* | present | Kai |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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

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The ref: how you tackle matters, it's a foul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:41-football-positions-rules-and-scoring:t6:o4:1
# text = The ref: how you tackle matters, it's a foul
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tackle	tackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	foul	foul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tackle** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present | the ref |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | ref | a foul |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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