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title: Lachie calls sandpaper «harmless». Which shows it wasn't? — Cheating and doping, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Lachie calls sandpaper «harmless». Which shows it wasn't? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 64 «Cheating and doping, as reported» 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 8 · ★★★ · Cheating and doping, as reported

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Lachie calls sandpaper «harmless». Which shows it wasn't?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lachie, sandpaper · **What happens:** call, show, not be · **To what, where:** sandpaper · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 64 «Cheating and doping, as reported» 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/64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lachie calls sandpaper «harmless».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:1
# text = Lachie calls sandpaper «harmless».
1	Lachie	Lachie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sandpaper	sandpaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Lachie | sandpaper |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sandpaper=Recipient |

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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:* Which shows it wasn't?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:2
# text = Which shows it wasn't?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **be** | past | sandpaper |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A small fine for damaging the ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:o1:1
# text = A small fine for damaging the ball
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fine	fine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	damaging	damage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | gerund | a small fine *not said here* | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing happened at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing happened at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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

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Bans of 12, 12 and 9 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:o3:1
# text = Bans of 12, 12 and 9 months
1	Bans	ban	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A warning letter only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t8:o4:1
# text = A warning letter only
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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