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title: «I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's us… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub. What's true? Test 8 of lesson 70 «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 8 · The kid who is always on the bench

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«I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub. What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** not be, bother, play, say, be · **To what, where:** sub · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 70 «The kid who is always on the bench» 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/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:1
# text = «I'm never good enough, why even bother playing» says a kid who's usually a sub.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	bother	bother	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sub	sub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | a kid *= kid* |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bother** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a kid | a sub |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |

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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 true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:2
# text = What's true?
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Exercise only counts for starters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:o1:1
# text = Exercise only counts for starters
1	Exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	starters	starter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Exercise |  |  |  |  | for starters | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only the best players should play sport at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:o2:1
# text = Only the best players should play sport at all
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | should | the best players | sport |  | all |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Theme |

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

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Fun, friends and fitness are the point

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:o3:1
# text = Fun, friends and fitness are the point
1	Fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fitness	fitness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Fun and friends and fitness | the point |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Subs don't count as players

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench:t8:o4:1
# text = Subs don't count as players
1	Subs	sub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | Subs |  |  |  |  | as players | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as player=Attribute |

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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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