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description: Pursuant to the laws of rugby, identify the directions in which the ball may lawfully be passed. Exam question 2 of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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 · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football

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Pursuant to the laws of rugby, identify the directions in which the ball may lawfully be passed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, pass · **To what, where:** directions, ball

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:e2:1
# text = Pursuant to the laws of rugby, identify the directions in which the ball may lawfully be passed.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	lawfully	lawfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the directions |  |  |  | pursuant *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | may · passive |  | the ball |  | the directions |  | lawfully *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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Forwards only, towards the try line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:e2:o1:1
# text = Forwards only, towards the try line
1	Forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In any direction whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:e2:o2:1
# text = In any direction whatsoever
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Backwards only, and solely by kicking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:e2:o3:1
# text = Backwards only, and solely by kicking
1	Backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | solely *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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

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Sideways or backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:e2:o4:1
# text = Sideways or backwards
1	Sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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