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description: Ruby: "Sweet as, try time!" She threw it forward, like in American football. Why is a forward pass wrong in rugby? Test 5 · ★★★ 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 an
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football

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Ruby: "Sweet as, try time!" She threw it forward, like in American football. Why is a forward pass wrong in rugby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ruby, forward pass · **What happens:** try, throw, be · **To what, where:** it, rugby

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This is test 5 · ★★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby: "Sweet as, try time!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:1
# text = Ruby: "Sweet as, try time!"
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:* She threw it forward, like in American football.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:2
# text = She threw it forward, like in American football.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Ruby | it |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* Why is a forward pass wrong in rugby?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:3
# text = Why is a forward pass wrong in rugby?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a forward pass |  |  | rugby |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Forward passes are only for kickers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:o1:1
# text = Forward passes are only for kickers
1	Forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	passes	pass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kickers	kicker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Forward passes |  |  |  |  | for kickers | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Rugby passes go only sideways or back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:o2:1
# text = Rugby passes go only sideways or back
1	Rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	passes	pass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Rugby passes |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only kicks may go backwards in rugby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:o3:1
# text = Only kicks may go backwards in rugby
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	kicks	kick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may · present |  |  |  | rugby |  | backwards, go *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rugby has no passing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football:t5:o4:1
# text = Rugby has no passing at all
1	Rugby	Rugby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Rugby | no passing |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passing=Patient |

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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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