Test 2 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

Which is true about practising a musical instrument?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, practise · To what, where: musical instrument

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 practising	mark
5	practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 instrument	det
7	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 instrument	amod
8	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 practising	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	practise	gerund		a musical instrument					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Short daily practice builds skill faster than one long weekly session

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 practice	amod
2	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 practice	amod
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 builds	nsubj
4	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 builds	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 builds	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	11 session	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 session	nummod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 session	amod
10	weekly	weekly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 session	amod
11	session	session	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Short daily practice	skill				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product

Option 2

Playing a piece fast is the quickest way to learn it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Playing	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 learn	mark
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		a piece	fast property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	is a	present	Playing	the quickest way		tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive		piece		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Mistakes disappear by themselves if you keep going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disappear	nsubj
2	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 themselves	case
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disappear	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 keep	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disappear	advcl
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	Mistakes	by Mistakes = mistake	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	you		tree rules
3	go	gerund	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Practising once a week for a long time is just as good as every day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 good	csubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Practising	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practising	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund					time	once property	tree rules
2	is	present	Practising				day	good property	tree rules

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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