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Test 1 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day. Who will probably improve faster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maya, Leo · What happens: practise, improve · To what, where: flute

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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: Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 practises	nsubj
2	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flute	det
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 practises	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flute	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 Saturday	det
9	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 practises	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 practises	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 practises	cc
12	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 practises	nsubj
13	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 practises	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 minutes	case
15	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 minutes	nummod
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 practises	obl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practises	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 practises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	Maya	the flute			for 3 hours; saturday		tree rules
2	practise	present	Leo				day; minute		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: Who will probably improve faster?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 improve	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 improve	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 improve	advmod
4	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 improve	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 improve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	future						fast, probably property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Maya, because she practises longer at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 practises	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 practises	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 practises	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 practises	nsubj
5	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 practises	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 practises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	Maya					long property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Leo, because daily practice builds skill faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 builds	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leo	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 practice	case
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 practice	amod
5	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leo	nmod
6	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	obj
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 builds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Leo because daily practice	skill				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Product

Option 3

Neither, because practice does not help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	7 help	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 help	mark
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 help	advmod
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	practice					neither property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Both exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	4 same	cc:preconj
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 same	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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