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title: What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit be… — The coach who shouts and parents on th… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit because of abuse? Test 4 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 r
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# Test 4 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

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What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit because of abuse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teenage refs · **What happens:** happen, quit

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t4:1
# text = What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit because of abuse?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	grassroots	grassroot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	teenage	teenage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	refs	ref	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	quit	quit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to grassroots football | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **quit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | all teenage refs |  |  |  |  | because abuse | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Kids would never argue again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t4:o1:1
# text = Kids would never argue again
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **argue** *speech: disagree* | would | Kids |  |  |  | again |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Games would go on just the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t4:o2:1
# text = Games would go on just the same
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | would | Games |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Parents would happily ref every game better instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t4:o3:1
# text = Parents would happily ref every game better instead
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ref	ref	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ref** | would | Parents | every game |  |  |  | happily, instead, well *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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There'd be no refs and fewer games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:68-the-coach-who-shouts-and-parents-on-the-touchline:t4:o4:1
# text = There'd be no refs and fewer games
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	refs	ref	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | no refs and fewer games |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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