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title: Zara: «The Olympics are every year, right?» Correct her. — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Zara: «The Olympics are every year, right?» Correct her. Test 1 · ★ of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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 1 · ★ · The Olympics and Paralympics

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Zara: «The Olympics are every year, right?» Correct her.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Olympics · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** year

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 62 «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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/62-the-olympics-and-paralympics/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Zara: «The Olympics are every year, right?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:1
# text = Zara: «The Olympics are every year, right?»
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Olympics | every year |  |  |  |  | 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:* Correct her.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:2
# text = Correct her.
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Every 10 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:o1:1
# text = Every 10 years
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Summer Games every 4 years, Winter 2 years later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:o2:1
# text = Summer Games every 4 years, Winter 2 years later
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only when a country asks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:o3:1
# text = Only when a country asks
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a country |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every year in a new city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t1:o4:1
# text = Every year in a new city
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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