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title: "Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily servin… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving. What's sensible? Test 6 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 option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 6 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating

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"Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving. What's sensible?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Me shoulder, Callum · **What happens:** kill, say, be · **To what, where:** Callum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 44 «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:1
# text = "Me shoulder's killing me," says Callum after a week of daily serving.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	compound	_	_
3	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Me shoulder | Callum |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Callum |  |  |  | week |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 sensible?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:2
# text = What's sensible?
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	sensible	sensible	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 |  |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Serve twice as much to toughen it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:o1:1
# text = Serve twice as much to toughen it up
1	Serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	toughen	toughen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | imperative | you *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Attribute |
| 2 | **toughen up** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ice it, then serve for two hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:o2:1
# text = Ice it, then serve for two hours
1	Ice	ice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ice** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 2 | **serve** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then; hour |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rest it and mix serves with other practice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:o3:1
# text = Rest it and mix serves with other practice
1	Rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	mix	mix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	serves	serve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **mix** | infinitive | you *not said here* | serves |  |  |  | with other practice | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent serve=Patient with practice=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Serve with the other arm all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t6:o4:1
# text = Serve with the other arm all day
1	Serve	serve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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