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title: Ishaan: "It's grand, I'll just duck." What's the hard-ball rule for… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and Americ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ishaan: "It's grand, I'll just duck." What's the hard-ball rule for him? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football

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Ishaan: "It's grand, I'll just duck." What's the hard-ball rule for him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** It, ball rule · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ishaan: "It's grand, I'll just duck."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:1
# text = Ishaan: "It's grand, I'll just duck."
1	Ishaan	Ishaan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | It |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | 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:* What's the hard-ball rule for him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:2
# text = What's the hard-ball rule for him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the ball rule for duck |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A cap is as good as a helmet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:o1:1
# text = A cap is as good as a helmet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a cap |  |  |  |  | as a helmet; good *property* | tree rules |

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

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Helmet with face guard, every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:o2:1
# text = Helmet with face guard, every time
1	Helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Helmets only in matches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:o3:1
# text = Helmets only in matches
1	Helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ducking is enough at the nets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t3:o4:1
# text = Ducking is enough at the nets
1	Ducking	duck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **duck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the nets |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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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