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title: In a cartoon the last kid picked is always useless and trips over th… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon the last kid picked is always useless and trips over the ball. What's the real-life version? Test 4 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · Picking teams and being picked last

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In a cartoon the last kid picked is always useless and trips over the ball. What's the real-life version?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** last kid, life version · **What happens:** pick, be, trip · **To what, where:** last kid, cartoon, ball

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This is test 4 of lesson 66 «Picking teams and being picked last» 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/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon the last kid picked is always useless and trips over the ball.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon the last kid picked is always useless and trips over the ball.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	trips	trip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | participle |  | the last kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the last kid |  |  | a cartoon |  | always, useless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trip** | present | the last kid *not said here* |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ball=Trajectory |

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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's the real-life version?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:2
# text = What's the real-life version?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the life version |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Last picks can't kick a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:o1:1
# text = Last picks can't kick a ball
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	picks	pick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|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 | **not** **kick** | can | Last picks | a ball |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Real last picks never get the ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:o2:1
# text = Real last picks never get the ball
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	picks	pick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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 | **not** **get** | present | Real last picks | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus |

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

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The last pick can be good and just unknown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:o3:1
# text = The last pick can be good and just unknown
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | the last pick |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the last pick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The last pick is always the clumsiest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t4:o4:1
# text = The last pick is always the clumsiest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clumsiest	clumsy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the last pick |  |  |  |  | always, clumsy *property* | tree rules |

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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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