Test 7 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

Why is it good to review spelling words again a few days after learning them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, review, learn · To what, where: spelling words, words

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 good	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 good	expl
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 review	mark
6	review	review	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	compound
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 review	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 review	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 review	obl:unmarked
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 learning	mark
14	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 review	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 learning	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			good property	tree rules
2	review	to-infinitive	spelling words	again; day		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	learn	gerund	words = word			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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

It makes the words harder to forget for others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forget	mark
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the words				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material word=Product
2	forget	to-infinitive	the words not said here					for others	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reviewing at intervals helps memories last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reviewing	review	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helps	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 intervals	case
3	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Reviewing	obl
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helps	obj
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	review	gerund			intervals	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	Reviewing	memories		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	last	infinitive	memories not said here			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Words change their spelling after a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spelling	nmod:poss
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Words	Words's spelling			week		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient
2	spell		Words = word						nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It is only to please the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 please	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 please	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 please	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 please	mark
5	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 please	obj

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

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