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Test 6 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

After three weeks of guitar, a girl in Arizona can play two songs, though her friend can play ten. How should she see her progress?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: play, see, progress · To what, where: two songs, ten, progress

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: After three weeks of guitar, a girl in Arizona can play two songs, though her friend can play ten.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 weeks	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 play	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 guitar	case
5	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weeks	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girl	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guitar	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Arizona	case
10	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 girl	nmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 play	aux
12	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 songs	nummod
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 play	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 play	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 play	mark
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 play	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 play	aux
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 play	conj
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 play	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	can		two songs			week		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
2	play	can	Arizona's friend	ten					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme

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: How should she see her progress?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 see	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 progress	nmod:poss
6	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	should	friend	friend's progress					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer progress=Stimulus
2	progress		friend						nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She has improved a lot since she started

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 improved	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 improved	aux
3	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 improved	obj
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 started	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 improved	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present · perfect	She	a lot					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	start	past	she						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She should quit because her friend is better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quit	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 quit	aux
3	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 better	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 better	cop
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 quit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	should	She						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	her friend					good property	tree rules

Option 3

She must catch up with her friend by tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 catch	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 friend	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 tomorrow	case
9	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch up	must	She				tomorrow	with her friend	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She is hopeless at guitar and always will be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hopeless	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hopeless	cop
3	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 guitar	case
5	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopeless	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 be	cc
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 be	advmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hopeless	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			guitar		hopeless property	tree rules
2	be	future	She not said here					always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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