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title: Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy». What's likely true? — Famous athletes and what being a profe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy». What's likely true? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

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Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy». What's likely true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:1
# text = Ethan: «I'm just mid at footy».
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	footy	footy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* What's likely true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:2
# text = What's likely true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only September kids ever go on to become pros

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:o1:1
# text = Only September kids ever go on to become pros
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	pros	pro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | present | September kids |  |  |  | ever |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | September kids *not said here* | pros |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Being picked at 10 decides everything that comes later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:o2:1
# text = Being picked at 10 decides everything that comes later
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | at 10 | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: at 10=Patient |
| 2 | **decide** | present |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being younger in the year isn't being worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:o3:1
# text = Being younger in the year isn't being worse
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
9	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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August kids never catch up, whatever they do in training

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:63-famous-athletes-and-what-being-a-professional-takes:t9:o4:1
# text = August kids never catch up, whatever they do in training
1	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	parataxis	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **catch up** | present | August kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | kids *= kid* |  |  | training |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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