Test 14 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

ugh i suck at this, gonna quit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: suck · To what, where: gonna, this

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 suck	discourse
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suck	nsubj
3	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 suck	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suck	punct
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 suck	obj
8	quit	quit	X	Foreign=Yes	7 gonna	flat:foreign

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	present	i	gonna		this			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gonna=Source

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

Practise once a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practise	practise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Practise	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 month	det
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Quit, some people just aren't born sporty and you'll never get it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quit	Quit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 born	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Quit	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 born	nsubj:pass
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 born	advmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux:pass
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 born	advmod
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	sporty	sporty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 born	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 born	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	present · passive		Quit				sporty property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not get	future	you	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Only practise when it's easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 practise	advmod
2	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 easy	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 practise	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	present	you not said here					easy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Break it into small steps and practise often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Break	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 steps	case
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 steps	amod
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Break	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 practise	cc
7	practise	practise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steps	conj
8	often	often	ADV	_	1 Break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	imperative	you not said here	it				into small steps and practise result; often property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into step=Result

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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