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Test 3 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

A boy practises piano scales 10 minutes a day; his friend practises once a month for 5 hours. Who will probably get better faster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, friend · What happens: practise, get · To what, where: piano scales

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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: A boy practises piano scales 10 minutes a day; his friend practises once a month for 5 hours.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 practises	nsubj
3	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scales	compound
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 practises	obj
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 practises	obl:unmarked
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 minutes	nmod:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 practises	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 practises	nsubj
13	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 practises	conj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 practises	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 month	det
16	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 once	obl:unmarked
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 hours	case
18	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 hours	nummod
19	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 practises	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 practises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	a boy	piano scales			minute		tree rules
2	practise	present	boy's friend				hour	once 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.

Sentence 2: Who will probably get better faster?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future						good, probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The friend who practises for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 practises	nsubj
4	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friend	acl:relcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hours	case
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 practises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	the friend				hour		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The boy who practises daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 practises	nsubj
4	practises	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 boy	acl:relcl
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	4 practises	advmod

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

Option 3

Neither of them, practice does not help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 practice	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Neither	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
5	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 help	advmod
8	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	neither practice						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They will be exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 same	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 same	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 same	cop
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	They					exactly, same 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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