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description: Select the response consistent with the rules of tennis concerning a score of forty points each. Exam question 2 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 2 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating

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Select the response consistent with the rules of tennis concerning a score of forty points each.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, tennis · **What happens:** select, concern, rule, score · **To what, where:** response, score, forty points

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e2:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the rules of tennis concerning a score of forty points each.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | tennis *not said here* | a score of forty points  each |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus score=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rule** |  | tennis |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **score** |  |  | forty points |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Two consecutive points are required to win the game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e2:o1:1
# text = Two consecutive points are required to win the game
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	consecutive	consecutive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present · passive |  | Two consecutive points |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | the game |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A tie-break is commenced at once to determine the game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e2:o2:1
# text = A tie-break is commenced at once to determine the game
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commence** | present · passive |  | a tie break |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **determine** | to-infinitive |  | the game |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The subsequent point decides the game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e2:o3:1
# text = The subsequent point decides the game
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present | the subsequent point | the game |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The game is replayed in its entirety from love

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:e2:o4:1
# text = The game is replayed in its entirety from love
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	replayed	replay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	entirety	entirety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replay** | present · passive |  | the game |  | game's entirety from love |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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