--- title: Ben: "Bloody hell, I ate the pavement." What would have helped most? — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and… · tree and pragmatics description: Ben: "Bloody hell, I ate the pavement." What would have helped most? Test 8 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 was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/) / t8 # Test 8 · Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating Ben: "Bloody hell, I ate the pavement." What would have helped most? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ben · **What happens:** eat, help · **To what, where:** pavement This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ben: "Bloody hell, I ate the pavement." ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:1 # text = Ben: "Bloody hell, I ate the pavement." 1 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Bloody bloody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hell hell NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | Ben | the pavement | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavement=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What would have helped most? ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:2 # text = What would have helped most? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | would · perfect | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Skating faster over stones ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:o1:1 # text = Skating faster over stones 1 Skating skate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 advmod _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skate** | gerund | | | | stones | | fast *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} Putting his hand out first ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:o2:1 # text = Putting his hand out first 1 Putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put out** | gerund | | his hand | | | | first *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ### Option 3 {#o3} Standing up straighter ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:o3:1 # text = Standing up straighter 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 straighter straight ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | gerund | | | | | | straight *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Gear on, crouching low, rolling as he fell ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating:t8:o4:1 # text = Gear on, crouching low, rolling as he fell 1 Gear gear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 crouching crouch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 5 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gear** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **crouch** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **roll** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | he | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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