Test 19 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

my mate says if u practise piano for 7 hours on Sunday it's the same as every day. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: say, practise, be · To what, where: piano · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 practise	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 practise	nsubj
6	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 same	advcl
7	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practise	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hours	case
9	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 practise	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Sunday	case
12	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 hours	nmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 same	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 same	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 same	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
21	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	present	u	piano	hour		tree rules
3	is	present	mate		day	same property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, longer is always better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 longer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 better	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 better	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, the total is what counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 total	det
4	total	total	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the total						tree rules
2	count	present							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, short daily practice builds skill faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 practice	amod
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 practice	amod
5	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 builds	nsubj
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	short daily practice	skill				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product

Option 4

No, practice doesn't help at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 help	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	practice			all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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