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title: Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was». What really happ… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was». What really happened? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · The Olympics and Paralympics

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Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was». What really happened?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:1
# text = Liam's mate: «Tokyo 2020 was cancelled, so it was».
1	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Liam's mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | past | mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 really happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:2
# text = What really happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	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 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Moved to London in 2020

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:o1:1
# text = Moved to London in 2020
1	Moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  |  | London | 2020 |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to london=Source in 2020=Trajectory |

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

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Postponed a year, held mostly without crowds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:o2:1
# text = Postponed a year, held mostly without crowds
1	Postponed	postpone	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **postpone** | participle |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | without crowds; mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Held in 2019 instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:o3:1
# text = Held in 2019 instead
1	Held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  | 2019 |  | instead *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2019=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cancelled and never held

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:62-the-olympics-and-paralympics:t2:o4:1
# text = Cancelled and never held
1	Cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cancel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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