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title: What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18? — Famous athletes and what being a profe… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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 5 · ★ · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

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What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Arjun · **What happens:** happen, drop, not pick · **To what, where:** school

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» 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/63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t5:1
# text = What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Arjun | school |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **pick** | past · passive | Arjun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by 18 | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, everyone turns pro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, everyone turns pro
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pro	pro	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Nothing | pro |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme pro=Result |

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

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He'd have fewer choices for a career

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t5:o2:1
# text = He'd have fewer choices for a career
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | He | fewer choices |  |  |  | for a career | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He'd be picked automatically later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t5:o3:1
# text = He'd be picked automatically later
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | would · passive |  | He |  |  |  | automatically, late *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Clubs would pay him anyway because he'd trained hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t5:o4:1
# text = Clubs would pay him anyway because he'd trained hard
1	Clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | Clubs | him *= he* |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **train** | past · perfect · passive |  | he |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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