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title: Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals". What… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals". What's sensible? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

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Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals". What's sensible?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** football team · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** bananas

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:1
# text = Your football team eats bananas before every match "for goals".
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Your football team | bananas |  |  | before every match | for goals | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |

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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 sensible?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:2
# text = What's sensible?
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	sensible	sensible	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 |  |  |  |  |  | sensible *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Let it go; rituals can be fun and bananas are a fine snack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:o1:1
# text = Let it go; rituals can be fun and bananas are a fine snack
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	rituals	ritual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | can | rituals |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | bananas | a fine snack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Eat ten bananas to score ten goals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:o2:1
# text = Eat ten bananas to score ten goals
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	score	score	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | ten bananas |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |
| 2 | **score** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ten goals |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tell the coach the team is stupid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:o3:1
# text = Tell the coach the team is stupid
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the coach |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the team |  |  |  |  | stupid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ban bananas because they're a myth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t5:o4:1
# text = Ban bananas because they're a myth
1	Ban	ban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bananas *= banana* | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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