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title: Fin's dad: «Tight offsides are just guesses». How did 2022 measure t… — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics
description: Fin's dad: «Tight offsides are just guesses». How did 2022 measure them? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 65 «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries

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Fin's dad: «Tight offsides are just guesses». How did 2022 measure them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tight offsides, 2022 · **What happens:** be, measure · **To what, where:** guesses, offsides

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 65 «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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/65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Fin's dad: «Tight offsides are just guesses».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:1
# text = Fin's dad: «Tight offsides are just guesses».
1	Fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	offsides	offside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	guesses	guess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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* | present | Tight offsides | guesses |  |  |  |  | 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:* How did 2022 measure them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:2
# text = How did 2022 measure them?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | past · do-support | 2022 | offsides *= offside* |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The players voting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:o1:1
# text = The players voting
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A ball sensor sending data 500 times a second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:o2:1
# text = A ball sensor sending data 500 times a second
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sensor	sensor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund | a ball sensor *not said here* | data |  |  | time |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent data=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Linesmen guessing as best they can from the halfway line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:o3:1
# text = Linesmen guessing as best they can from the halfway line
1	Linesmen	linesman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | gerund | Linesmen *not said here* | best |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Counting the fans who shouted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t3:o4:1
# text = Counting the fans who shouted
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund |  | the fans |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the fans |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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