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Test 1 · Being bad at something and keeping going

Your mate goes, "My fingers hurt after a week, I'm nesh, guitar's not for me" ("nesh" means soft). What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, fingers, I, guitar, nesh, best answer · What happens: go, hurt, be, not be, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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: Your mate goes, "My fingers hurt after a week, I'm nesh, guitar's not for me" ("nesh" means soft).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingers	nmod:poss
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	nsubj
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nesh	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 nesh	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nesh	cop
15	nesh	nesh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 me	punct
17	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 me	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 me	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 me	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 nesh	advcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 me	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 nesh	punct
25	nesh	nesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	nsubj
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 nesh	punct
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
28	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 means	xcomp
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt in a quote	past	My fingers				week		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	I					nesh property	tree rules
4	not is in a quote	present	guitar					for me	tree rules
5	mean	present	nesh					soft property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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 the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He presses wrong strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 presses	nsubj
2	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strings	amod
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 presses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	He	wrong strings					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme

Option 2

He is right, some fingers always hurt on strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 fingers	det
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	nsubj:pass
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 strings	case
10	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	hurt	participle · passive		some fingers		strings		always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone's fingers hurt at first; they toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 fingers	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Everyone	case
3	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 hurt	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 toughen	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 toughen	nsubj
9	toughen	toughen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	Everyone's fingers						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	toughen up	present	fingers = finger						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He should use sharper strings to toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 strings	amod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 toughen	mark
7	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	should	He	sharper strings					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
2	toughen up	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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