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Test 8 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes

A boy in Ireland says, "I'll never be good at maths, so why try?" What would help him most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: say, not be, try, help · To what, where: maths, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: A boy in Ireland says, "I'll never be good at maths, so why try?"

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	5 says	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 good	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 good	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 good	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 good	cop
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 maths	case
14	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 good	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 try	advmod
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 try	advmod
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a boy in Ireland						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is in a quote	future	a boy in Ireland = boy			maths		good property	tree rules
3	try in a quote	infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: What would help him most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			boy				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Copying his friend's homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 homework	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund		his friend's homework					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Knowing that maths grows with practice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 grows	csubj
2	that	that	ADP	_	3 maths	case
3	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Knowing	obl
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 practice	case
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund						that maths	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	present	Knowing					with practice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only doing the easy sums so he never gets anything wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 doing	advmod
2	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 gets	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sums	det
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sums	amod
5	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 doing	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 gets	advmod
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 gets	obj
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund		the easy sums					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality
2	not get	present	he	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

Avoiding all maths lessons from now on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 maths	det
3	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lessons	compound
4	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Avoiding	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 now	case
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Avoiding	obl
7	on	on	ADV	_	1 Avoiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	gerund		maths lessons					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent lesson=Location

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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