Exam question 1 · Younger children, losing and practising

Identify the most effective pattern of practice for improving a skill.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, effective pattern, practice · What happens: identify, improve, pattern · To what, where: effective pattern, skill

This is exam question 1 of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	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	_	7 practice	case
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pattern	nmod
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 improving	mark
9	improving	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 pattern	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skill	det
11	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 improving	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the effective pattern of practice	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme
2	improve	gerund	the effective pattern of practice not said here	a skill	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skill=Patient
3	pattern		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 before a match

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 match	advmod
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 match	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 match	det
5	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practice	nmod

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

Option 2

One very long session a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 session	nummod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 session	amod
4	session	session	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 session	nmod:unmarked

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

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

Regular short sessions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sessions	amod
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sessions	amod
3	sessions	session	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Practice only when one is not tired

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	_	7 tired	advmod
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 tired	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Practice	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	one					tired property	tree rules

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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