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title: «ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down». What's mo… — The coach who shouts and parents on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down». What's more likely? Test 2 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

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«ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down». What's more likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ref · **What happens:** go, swear down, be · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:1
# text = «ref's against us, every call goes their way, swear down».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | ref against us | their way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **swear down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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's more likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:2
# 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 was paid by the other team before the game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:o1:1
# text = The ref was paid by the other team before the game
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive | the other team | the ref |  |  | before the game |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One ref, a hard angle; mistakes go both ways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:o2:1
# text = One ref, a hard angle; mistakes go both ways
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | mistakes | both ways |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Refs always favour the away team

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:o3:1
# text = Refs always favour the away team
1	Refs	ref	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	favour	favour	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	away	away	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
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 | **favour** | present | Refs | the away team |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The ref can't see anything at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t2:o4:1
# text = The ref can't see anything at all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ref	ref	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | the ref | anything |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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