Exam question 1 · Practising when you would rather not

Identify the principal deficiency of a practice method in which a performer recommences the entire piece upon each error.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, performer · What happens: identify, recommence · To what, where: principal deficiency, entire piece, practice method

This is exam question 1 of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deficiency	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deficiency	amod
4	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 method	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 method	det
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 method	compound
8	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deficiency	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 recommences	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 performer	det
12	performer	performer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recommences	nsubj
13	recommences	recommence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 method	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 piece	det
15	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 piece	amod
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recommences	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 error	case
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 error	det
19	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal deficiency of a practice method					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme
2	recommence	present	a performer	the entire piece		a practice method		upon each error	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The method causes the instrument to deteriorate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 method	det
2	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	nsubj
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 instrument	det
5	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 deteriorate	mark
7	deteriorate	deteriorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 causes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present	the method	the instrument					tree rules
2	deteriorate	to-infinitive	the instrument not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The method has no deficiency whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 method	det
2	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 deficiency	det
5	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the method	no deficiency				whatsoever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deficiency=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The difficult passage receives the least repetition of any passage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
2	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passage	amod
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receives	nsubj
4	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 repetition	det
6	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 repetition	amod
7	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receives	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 passage	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 passage	det
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 repetition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present	the difficult passage	the least repetition of any passage					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repetition=Theme
2	repeat		any passage						nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The difficult passage receives an excess of repetition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
2	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passage	amod
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receives	nsubj
4	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 excess	det
6	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receives	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 repetition	case
8	repetition	repetition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 excess	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present	the difficult passage	a excess of repetition					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excess=Theme

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