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title: Olivia's friend: «It was just a few bad athletes». What did the inve… — Cheating and doping, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: Olivia's friend: «It was just a few bad athletes». What did the investigations describe? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · Cheating and doping, as reported

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Olivia's friend: «It was just a few bad athletes». What did the investigations describe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, investigations · **What happens:** be, describe · **To what, where:** few bad athletes

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Olivia's friend: «It was just a few bad athletes».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:1
# text = Olivia's friend: «It was just a few bad athletes».
1	Olivia	Olivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | friend | a few bad athletes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 did the investigations describe?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:2
# text = What did the investigations describe?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | past · do-support | the investigations |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One athlete acting alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:o1:1
# text = One athlete acting alone
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	athlete	athlete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | gerund | One athlete |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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An organised system

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:o2:1
# text = An organised system
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	organised	organised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A mistake by the testers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:o3:1
# text = A mistake by the testers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	testers	tester	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mistake** |  | the testers |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: by=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, it was all a rumour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:64-cheating-and-doping-as-reported:t9:o4:1
# text = Nothing, it was all a rumour
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nothing | all rumour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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