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Test 4 · Being bad at something and keeping going

In a cartoon, a boy plays drums perfectly after one lesson and becomes a rock star by Friday. What is more realistic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: play, become, be · To what, where: drums, cartoon, rock star

This is test 4 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: In a cartoon, a boy plays drums perfectly after one lesson and becomes a rock star by Friday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	nsubj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plays	obj
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 plays	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 lesson	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 lesson	nummod
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plays	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 becomes	cc
14	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plays	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 star	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 star	compound
17	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becomes	xcomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 Friday	case
19	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 star	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 plays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	a boy	drums		a cartoon	after one lesson	perfectly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
2	become	present	a boy not said here	a rock star by Friday					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 more realistic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 realistic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 realistic	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 realistic	advmod
4	realistic	realistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 realistic	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rock stars never practise, they just get lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stars	compound
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 practise	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 practise	advmod
4	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 practise	advcl
9	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not practise	present	Rock stars						tree rules
2	get	present	stars = star					lucky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Skills take many weeks of practice and mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weeks	amod
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 practice	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weeks	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mistakes	cc
8	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weeks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Skills				week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Drums are the only instrument you can learn in a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 instrument	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 instrument	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 instrument	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 instrument	amod
5	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 learn	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 learn	aux
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 instrument	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Drums	the only instrument					tree rules
2	learn	can	you	the only instrument not said here			day		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic

Option 4

Everyone becomes great after their first lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 lesson	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lesson	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 lesson	amod
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Everyone				after their first lesson	great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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