--- title: «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». What's true at ag… — Girls' and boys' teams · tree and pragmatics description: «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». What's true at age 9? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 69 «Girls' and boys' teams» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Girls' and boys' teams](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Girls' and boys' teams «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». What's true at age 9? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boys, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** facts innit, age This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 69 «Girls' and boys' teams» 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/69-girls-and-boys-teams/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:1 # text = «boys are always faster, that's just facts innit». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 compound _ _ 11 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | boys | | | | | always, fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | facts innit | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's true at age 9? ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:2 # text = What's true at age 9? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | at age | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Little difference; practice matters most ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:o1:1 # text = Little difference; practice matters most 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | practice | Little difference *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Boys are always faster at any age, it's just nature ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:o2:1 # text = Boys are always faster at any age, it's just nature 1 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Boys | | | | at any age | always, fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | age | nature | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Boys are faster but only on grass ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:o3:1 # text = Boys are faster but only on grass 1 Boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Boys | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Girls are faster only at swimming ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:69-girls-and-boys-teams:t1:o4:1 # text = Girls are faster only at swimming 1 Girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Girls | | | swimming | | | tree rules | **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. 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