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title: Cian's team mumble «good game, lads» after rugby in Cork. What does… — Losing well and winning well · tree and pragmatics
description: Cian's team mumble «good game, lads» after rugby in Cork. What does the ritual do? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Losing well and winning well

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Cian's team mumble «good game, lads» after rugby in Cork. What does the ritual do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cian · **What happens:** mumble, do · **To what, where:** ritual do

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cian's team mumble «good game, lads» after rugby in Cork.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:1
# text = Cian's team mumble «good game, lads» after rugby in Cork.
1	Cian	Cian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mumble	mumble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cork	Cork	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mumble** |  | Cian |  |  |  |  |  | nom mumble «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 the ritual do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:2
# text = What does the ritual do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ritual	ritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the ritual do |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Tells the ref to change the score

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:o1:1
# text = Tells the ref to change the score
1	Tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  | the ref |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent ref=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the ref *not said here* | the score |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shows they are glad they lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:o2:1
# text = Shows they are glad they lost
1	Shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Shows *= show* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Shows |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Signals the battle is over, so the body settles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:o3:1
# text = Signals the battle is over, so the body settles
1	Signals	signal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signal** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the battle |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **settle** | present | the body |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Starts a second half of the match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:67-losing-well-and-winning-well:t5:o4:1
# text = Starts a second half of the match
1	Starts	start	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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