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title: Hannah's brother: «The greatest never lose». How does Phelps show he… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Hannah's brother: «The greatest never lose». How does Phelps show he's wrong? Test 11 · ★ 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 11 · ★ · The Olympics and Paralympics

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Hannah's brother: «The greatest never lose». How does Phelps show he's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** greatest, Phelps · **What happens:** not lose, show, be · **To what, where:** brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hannah's brother: «The greatest never lose».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:1
# text = Hannah's brother: «The greatest never lose».
1	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nsubj	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 | **not** **lose** *in a quote* | infinitive | the greatest | Hannah's brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality |

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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:* How does Phelps show he's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:2
# text = How does Phelps show he's wrong?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Phelps	Phelps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | Phelps |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Phelps |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Phelps never swam a final

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:o1:1
# text = Phelps never swam a final
1	Phelps	Phelps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** | past | Phelps | a final |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme final=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Phelps won every single race he ever swam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:o2:1
# text = Phelps won every single race he ever swam
1	Phelps	Phelps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Phelps | every single race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 2 | **swim** | past | Phelps | every single race *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Phelps lost every race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:o3:1
# text = Phelps lost every race
1	Phelps	Phelps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Phelps | every race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |

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

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Even Phelps won silver and bronze too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t11:o4:1
# text = Even Phelps won silver and bronze too
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Phelps	Phelps	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Phelps | silver and bronze |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Eventuality |

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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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