Exam question 1 · Music practice and ball games

Identify the more effective pattern of musical practice.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, musical practice · What happens: identify, pattern · To what, where: effective pattern

This is exam question 1 of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pattern	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 effective	advmod
4	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pattern	amod
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 practice	case
7	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 practice	amod
8	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the effective pattern of musical practice					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	pattern		musical practice						nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1

Practice only when one feels like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feels	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 feels	advmod
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 feels	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feels	nsubj
5	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Practice					like it	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Short practice every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 practice	amod
2	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 practice	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Practice only before a concert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 concert	advmod
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 concert	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 concert	det
5	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practice	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A single long practice each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 practice	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 practice	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 practice	amod
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 practice	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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