Test 12 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

piano club is so hard, been 1 week, wanna quit

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: piano club · What happens: be · To what, where: 1 week

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 club	compound
2	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 club	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 week	punct
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 week	cop
8	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 week	nummod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 club	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wanna	punct
11	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 club	conj
12	quit	quit	X	Foreign=Yes	11 wanna	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	piano club and 1 week not said here					hard property	tree rules
2	is a	participle		1 week					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

Quit today, it won't get any easier than it is now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quit	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Quit	parataxis
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 easier	advmod
9	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 get	xcomp
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 is	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easier	advcl
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Quit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	quit	imperative	you not said here	now; today		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get	future	it		easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	be	present	it			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Never quit anything, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 quit	advmod
2	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 quit	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ever	punct
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 quit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not quit	imperative	you not said here	anything			ever		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Source

Option 3

Quit and start three new clubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 start	cc
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Quit	conj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 clubs	nummod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clubs	amod
6	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	infinitive	you not said here	three new clubs					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Give it a fair try for some weeks, then decide with a parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 try	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 try	amod
5	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 weeks	det
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 decide	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 decide	advmod
11	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 parent	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parent	det
14	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a fair try	it		week		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient try=Theme
2	decide	present					then	with a parent	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with parent=Co-Agent

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