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title: Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh». What could go wrong? Test 9 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · Breakfast before a match and food after

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Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh». What could go wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lucas, I · **What happens:** bring, buy, go · **To what, where:** nothing, stuff, canteen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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/53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:1
# text = Lucas brings nothing to a 5-hour tournament: «I'll just buy stuff at the canteen, eh».
1	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	canteen	canteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Lucas | nothing |  |  |  | to a hour tournament | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future | I | stuff |  | the canteen |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme at canteen=Asset |

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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 could go wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:2
# text = What could go wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He'll get too much fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:o1:1
# text = He'll get too much fruit
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | future | He | much fruit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, canteens always sell meals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:o2:1
# text = Nothing, canteens always sell meals
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	canteens	canteen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | Nothing canteens | meals |  |  |  | always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Canteens are never open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:o3:1
# text = Canteens are never open
1	Canteens	canteen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Canteens |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |

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

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The canteen may only sell sweets and fizzy drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t9:o4:1
# text = The canteen may only sell sweets and fizzy drinks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	canteen	canteen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | may | the canteen | sweets and fizzy drinks |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |

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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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