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title: «Bananas cure cramp, get me one quick!» What's true? — Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bananas cure cramp, get me one quick!» What's true? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 46 «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop» 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and w…

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«Bananas cure cramp, get me one quick!» What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bananas · **What happens:** cure, get, be · **To what, where:** cramp, me

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 46 «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop» 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/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Bananas cure cramp, get me one quick!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:1
# text = «Bananas cure cramp, get me one quick!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cure	cure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** *in a quote* | present | Bananas | cramp |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cramp=Source |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Bananas *not said here* | me |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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 true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cramp only happens to people who hate bananas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:o1:1
# text = Cramp only happens to people who hate bananas
1	Cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Cramp |  |  |  |  | to people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hate** | present | people | bananas |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer banana=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Salt in your boots stops cramp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:o2:1
# text = Salt in your boots stops cramp
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	boots	boots	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Salt in your boots | cramp |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cramp=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A banana fixes cramp in ten seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:o3:1
# text = A banana fixes cramp in ten seconds
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | present | a banana | cramp |  |  | second |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cramp=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Cramp's cause isn't fully known; gentle stretching and rest help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded:t9:o4:1
# text = Cramp's cause isn't fully known; gentle stretching and rest help
1	Cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stretching	stretching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | Cramp's cause |  |  |  | fully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | gentle stretching and rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** |  | Cramp |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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