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Test 7 · Being bad at something and keeping going

A kid says, "Sleep is wasted time, I'll practise the dance till midnight." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: say, waste, practise, be · To what, where: Sleep, dance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: A kid says, "Sleep is wasted time, I'll practise the dance till midnight."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wasted	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wasted	punct
6	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wasted	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wasted	aux:pass
8	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wasted	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 practise	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 practise	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 practise	aux
13	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wasted	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dance	det
15	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practise	obj
16	till	till	ADP	_	17 midnight	case
17	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practise	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 practise	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 practise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	waste in a quote	present · passive		Sleep			time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	practise in a quote	future	a kid = kid	the dance			midnight		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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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

Sleep makes you forget everything you learned that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forget	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 learned	nsubj
7	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 everything	acl:relcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learned	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sleep	you					tree rules
2	forget	infinitive	you not said here	everything					tree rules
3	learn	past	you				day		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Practising tired for hours always works best for dancers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 works	csubj
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Practising	xcomp
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 hours	case
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Practising	obl
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 works	advmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 works	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dancers	case
9	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund					hour	tired property	tree rules
2	work	present	Practising					for dancers; always, well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dancer=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sleep helps lock in new skills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 skills	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skills	amod
6	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Sleep						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lock	infinitive	Sleep not said here			new skills			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Rest is only for grown-ups, not for children learning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ups	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ups	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ups	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 children	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 children	case
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	appos
12	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 children	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Rest					for grown ups	tree rules
3	learn	gerund	children not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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