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Test 6 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

Kenji's sister says imagining playing is "the same as real practice". Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, imagining · What happens: say, imagine, be · To what, where: playing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Kenji's sister says imagining playing is "the same as real practice".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kenji	Kenji	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kenji	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	imagining	imagine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 same	csubj
6	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imagining	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 practice	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 practice	amod
13	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 same	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kenji's sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	imagine	gerund		playing					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot playing=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	imagining					as real practice; same property	tree rules

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is exactly the same as real practice, just quieter and easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 same	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 practice	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 practice	amod
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quieter	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 quieter	advmod
11	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 same	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 easier	cc
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 quieter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					as real practice; exactly, same property	tree rules

Option 2

It does nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 does	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	It	nothing		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It helps a little, but works best alongside real playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 helps	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 works	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 works	cc
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 helps	conj
8	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 works	advmod
9	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	11 playing	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 playing	amod
11	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	a little					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary
2	work	present						alongside real playing; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is better than touching a real instrument

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	5 touching	mark
5	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 better	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 instrument	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 instrument	amod
8	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules
2	touch	gerund		a real instrument					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme instrument=Co-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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