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title: Kai in Manchester: «our kid's always captain, he's boss at it». What… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai in Manchester: «our kid's always captain, he's boss at it». What would happen if everyone took turns? Test 6 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 6 · Picking teams and being picked last

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Kai in Manchester: «our kid's always captain, he's boss at it». What would happen if everyone took turns?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid, everyone · **What happens:** be, happen, take · **To what, where:** boss, turns

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kai in Manchester: «our kid's always captain, he's boss at it».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:1
# text = Kai in Manchester: «our kid's always captain, he's boss at it».
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | kid | boss |  | boss |  |  | 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 would happen if everyone took turns?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:2
# text = What would happen if everyone took turns?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The games would stop working

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:o1:1
# text = The games would stop working
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the games |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | the games *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Freddie would forget how to play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:o2:1
# text = Freddie would forget how to play
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | Freddie |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | Freddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody would ever win a match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:o3:1
# text = Nobody would ever win a match
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | would | Nobody | a match |  |  | ever |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |

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

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More kids would learn to lead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last:t6:o4:1
# text = More kids would learn to lead
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | More kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lead** | to-infinitive | More kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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