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title: Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them… — The coach who shouts and parents on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them. Why? Test 10 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

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Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teammates, Callum · **What happens:** start, make, yell · **To what, where:** more mistakes

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This is test 10 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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/68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:1
# text = Callum's teammates start making more mistakes after he yells at them.
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teammates	teammate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | Callum's teammates |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | Callum's teammates *not said here* | more mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
| 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Callum |  |  |  |  | at teammates *= teammate* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Their confidence drops and nerves cause errors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:o1:1
# text = Their confidence drops and nerves cause errors
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Their confidence drops and nerves | errors |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition error=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yelling makes the ball heavier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:o2:1
# text = Yelling makes the ball heavier
1	Yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | the ball |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ball=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They can't hear the referee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:o3:1
# text = They can't hear the referee
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | can | They | the referee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer referee=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are trying to annoy him back by playing badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t10:o4:1
# text = They are trying to annoy him back by playing badly
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	annoy	annoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present · progressive | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **annoy back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *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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