Test 2 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

Which is true about getting better at a skill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, get · To what, where: skill

This is test 2 · ★ 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	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 getting	mark
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 skill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skill	det
9	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl
10	?	?	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	get	gerund				a skill		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You either have talent or you never improve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 improve	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 improve	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 improve	advmod
8	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	talent				either property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient
2	not improve	present	you						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Small steps practised often add up to big improvement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 steps	amod
2	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 add	nsubj
3	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 steps	acl
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 add	advmod
5	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 add	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 improvement	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 improvement	amod
9	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	participle		Small steps not said here					tree rules
2	add up speech: assert	present	Small steps					to big improvement; often property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to improvement=Co-Patient

Option 3

Getting frustrated means you should stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	frustrated	frustrated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		frustrated property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present	Getting		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	should	you		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Practising once a year is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 enough	csubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Practising	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Practising	obl:unmarked
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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