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title: It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw. Determine the aggregate score. Exam question 1 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 1 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating

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It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw. Determine the aggregate score.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** basketball team, you · **What happens:** give, record, determine · **To what, where:** It, three successful attempts, arc, aggregate score

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:1
# text = It is given that a basketball team records three successful attempts from beyond the arc, two from within it and a single free throw.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	records	record	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arc	arc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	throw	throw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **record** | present | a basketball team | three successful attempts |  | the arc and a single free throw |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Theme |

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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:* Determine the aggregate score.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:2
# text = Determine the aggregate score.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate score |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twelve points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:o1:1
# text = Twelve points
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fourteen points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:o2:1
# text = Fourteen points
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sixteen points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:o3:1
# text = Sixteen points
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Six points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e1:o4:1
# text = Six points
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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