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title: Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!" It bounced once before the rope.… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and Americ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!" It bounced once before the rope. What would make it a real six? Test 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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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football

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Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!" It bounced once before the rope. What would make it a real six?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lekker, that, six · **What happens:** shoot, be, bounce, make · **To what, where:** Thabo, six, rope

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:1
# text = Thabo: "Lekker shot, that's a six!"
1	Thabo	Thabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Lekker	Lekker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** *in a quote* | past | Lekker | Thabo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thabo=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a six |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* It bounced once before the rope.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:2
# text = It bounced once before the rope.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bounced	bounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce** | past | six |  |  | the rope |  | once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rope=Trajectory |

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*Sentence 3:* What would make it a real six?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:3
# text = What would make it a real six?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would |  | six |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hitting the rope post

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:o1:1
# text = Hitting the rope post
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund |  | the rope post |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme post=Co-Theme |

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

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Clearing the rope without bouncing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:o2:1
# text = Clearing the rope without bouncing
1	Clearing	clear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bouncing	bounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear** | gerund |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rope=Source |
| 2 | **bounce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bouncing exactly twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:o3:1
# text = Bouncing exactly twice
1	Bouncing	bounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rolling slowly over the rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t2:o4:1
# text = Rolling slowly over the rope
1	Rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  | the rope |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rope=Trajectory |

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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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