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Test 4 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

A cartoon hero plays a piece once, badly, then wins a big contest the next day. What is wrong with this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon hero · What happens: play, win, be · To what, where: piece, big contest

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A cartoon hero plays a piece once, badly, then wins a big contest the next day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hero	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hero	compound
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	nsubj
4	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 plays	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 badly	punct
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 plays	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wins	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 wins	advmod
12	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plays	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 contest	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 contest	amod
15	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wins	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wins	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	a cartoon hero	a piece				badly, once property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	win	present	a cartoon hero not said here	a big contest			then; day		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with this; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Heroes in cartoons never play music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 cartoons	case
3	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Heroes	nmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 play	advmod
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	present	Heroes in cartoons	music					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, that is exactly how all real musicians learn their pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 learn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 learn	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 learn	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 learn	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 musicians	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 musicians	amod
9	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	nsubj
10	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pieces	nmod:poss
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					exactly, learn property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Real skill needs weeks of practice, not one go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skill	amod
2	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 practice	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weeks	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 go	nummod
10	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Real skill				week		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Contests only let in beginners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Contests	contest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
5	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	present	Contests	beginners					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beginner=Theme

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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