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title: «crap ref, we lost 'cause of him, that's it». What's more likely? — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: «crap ref, we lost 'cause of him, that's it». What's more likely? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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 1 · ★ · Losing well and winning well

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«crap ref, we lost 'cause of him, that's it». What's more likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crap ref, that · **What happens:** lose, be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «crap ref, we lost 'cause of him, that's it».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:1
# text = «crap ref, we lost 'cause of him, that's it».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	crap	crap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | crap ref |  |  |  |  | cause him *= he* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | it |  |  |  |  | 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's more likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:2
# text = What's more likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The ref decided the whole game alone, start to finish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:o1:1
# text = The ref decided the whole game alone, start to finish
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | the ref | the whole game |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the ref *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the ref *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Refs always help the home team

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:o2:1
# text = Refs always help the home team
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Refs | the home team |  |  |  | always *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Losing is never down to the players

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:o3:1
# text = Losing is never down to the players
1	Losing	losing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Losing |  |  |  |  | to the players; down *property* | tree rules |

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

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The other team simply played better that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t1:o4:1
# text = The other team simply played better that day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the other team |  |  |  | day | simply, well *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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