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description: Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last. What does lekker mean here? Test 5 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · Picking teams and being picked last

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Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last. What does lekker mean here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Thando, nobody · **What happens:** go, be, mean · **To what, where:** lekker

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:1
# text = Thando in Cape Town goes «lekker, sir!» when nobody's last.
1	Thando	Thando	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lekker	lekker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Thando in Cape Town | lekker and sir |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lekker=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | last *property* | 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 does lekker mean here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:2
# text = What does lekker mean here?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	lekker	lekk	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  | here |  | lekk *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Unfair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:o1:1
# text = Unfair
1	Unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:o2:1
# text = Sleepy
1	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rubbish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:o3:1
# text = Rubbish
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Great

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t5:o4:1
# text = Great
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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