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description: His sister: "You lost to me on the same sofa, Kai. Is the sofa lagging?" What does "lag" mean? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 173 «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world 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 6 · ★★ · "The game is rigged because I lost"

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His sister: "You lost to me on the same sofa, Kai. Is the sofa lagging?" What does "lag" mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sister, lag · **What happens:** lose, be, lag, mean · **To what, where:** me, same sofa, sofa

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 173 «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world 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/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* His sister: "You lost to me on the same sofa, Kai.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:1
# text = His sister: "You lost to me on the same sofa, Kai.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | His sister |  | me | the same sofa |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is the sofa lagging?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:2
# text = Is the sofa lagging?"
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	csubj	_	_
4	lagging	lag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the sofa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lag** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What does "lag" mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:3
# text = What does "lag" mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lag	lag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | lag |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A delay in an online game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:o1:1
# text = A delay in an online game
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A broken sofa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:o2:1
# text = A broken sofa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A type of controller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:o3:1
# text = A type of controller
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	controller	controller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **type** |  |  | controller |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cheat code

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:t6:o4:1
# text = A cheat code
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cheat	cheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	code	code	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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