Test 9 · Being bad at something and keeping going

Which is the best plan for Ling, who cannot draw hands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best plan · What happens: be, not draw · To what, where: best plan, hands

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 plan	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Ling	case
7	Ling	Ling	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 draw	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 draw	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 draw	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 draw	advmod
12	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	parataxis
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 draw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best plan				for Ling	tree rules
2	not draw	can	the best plan	hands					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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

Only ever drawing animals so hands never appear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 drawing	advmod
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 drawing	advmod
3	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drawing	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 appear	advmod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appear	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 appear	advmod
8	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drawing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund		animals			ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	not appear	present	hands						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Copying hands exactly from another artist's comic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copying	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 comic	csubj
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Copying	obj
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 artist	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 artist	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 artist	det
6	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copying	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 artist	case
8	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund		hands		another artist			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ten quick hand sketches a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hand	nummod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sketches	nsubj
4	sketches	sketch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sketches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sketch	present	Ten quick hand				week		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Waiting until she grows up, when hands get easier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 get	csubj
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 grows	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Waiting	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grows	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 get	advmod
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	present	she		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	hands	easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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