Test 8 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

Which plan uses 20 minutes best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plan, best · What happens: use, minute

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 uses	obj
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 minutes	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which plan						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	minute		best						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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Play the easiest piece over and over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 piece	det
3	easiest	easy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 piece	amod
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Play	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	1 Play	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 over	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 over	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	the easiest piece				over property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

Option 2

Watch the clock and play whatever comes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clock	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 play	cc
5	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	conj
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 play	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	the clock	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme
2	play	infinitive	you not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	come	present	whatever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Play the whole book through once at top speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 book	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 book	amod
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Play	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Play	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 speed	case
8	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 speed	amod
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	the whole book		top speed			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fix one tricky bar slowly, then play a fun piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 bar	nummod
3	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bar	amod
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fix	obj
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Fix	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 play	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 play	advmod
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Fix	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piece	det
10	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 piece	amod
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	one tricky bar				slowly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bar=Patient
2	play	infinitive	you not said here	a fun piece			then		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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