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Test 6 · ★ · Younger children, losing and practising

Learning to skateboard feels hopeless. Which plan is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Learning, plan · What happens: learn, skateboard, feel, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Learning to skateboard feels hopeless.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 feels	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 skateboard	mark
3	skateboard	skateboard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learning	xcomp
4	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feels	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund							vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	skateboard	to-infinitive							vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	present	Learning					hopeless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Which plan is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Learn one small step at a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 step	nummod
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 step	amod
4	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here	one small step			time		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Topic

Option 2

Try the hardest trick first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
3	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 trick	amod
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	the hardest trick				first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality

Option 3

Practise only when friends watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	5 watch	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 watch	advmod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 watch	nsubj
5	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Practise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	watch	present	friends						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stop after the first fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 fall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fall	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 fall	amod
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here				after the first fall		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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