Exam question 4 · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills
State which approach builds a skill most rapidly.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: State · What happens: build · To what, where: skill
This is exam question 4 of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 builds | nsubj |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 approach | det |
| 3 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 4 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 skill | det |
| 6 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 builds | obj |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 rapidly | advmod |
| 8 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 4 builds | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 builds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | State which approach | a skill | rapidly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product |
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, even ten minutes
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 | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 minutes | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 minutes | advmod |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minutes | nummod |
| 7 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 practice | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Practice once a month, for many hours at a time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Practice | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 month | det |
| 4 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 once | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hours | amod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Practice | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Practice only before a test
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 test | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 test | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 test | det |
| 5 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Practice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One long session each week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 session | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 session | amod |
| 3 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 session | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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