Test 5 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear
You want to learn a hard piece of piano music and you feel like giving up. What is the best plan?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, best plan · What happens: want, learn, feel, give up, be · To what, where: hard piece
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You want to learn a hard piece of piano music and you feel like giving up.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 learn | mark |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learn | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 music | case |
| 9 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 music | compound |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feel | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 want | conj |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 giving | mark |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 feel | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 giving | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a hard piece of piano music | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give up | gerund | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 is the best plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best plan | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Learn a few bars at a time, then join them up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bars | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bars | amod |
| 4 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Learn | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 join | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 join | advmod |
| 10 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Learn | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 join | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 join | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | a few bars | time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Topic | |||
| 2 | join up | infinitive | you not said here | bars = bar | then | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Play the whole piece again and again at full speed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 piece | amod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Play | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Play | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 again | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 again | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 speed | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speed | amod |
| 10 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | the whole piece | full speed | again | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
Option 3
Wait until you feel ready to play it all perfectly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 feel | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 play | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 it | det |
| 10 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 play | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | you | ready property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | perfectly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Choose only easy pieces from now on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 pieces | advmod |
| 3 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pieces | amod |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Choose | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 now | case |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Choose | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 now | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | easy pieces | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
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