Test 7 · ★ · Chores you skipped
Kid: «skipped my spellings twice and still got 10, so practice is pointless». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: practice, my · What happens: skip, get, be, spell · To what, where: Kid, 10
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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: Kid: «skipped my spellings twice and still got 10, so practice is pointless».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skipped | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kid | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 skipped | punct |
| 4 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spellings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skipped | obj |
| 7 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 skipped | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skipped | conj |
| 11 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pointless | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 pointless | advmod |
| 14 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pointless | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pointless | cop |
| 16 | pointless | pointless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | parataxis |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 pointless | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skipped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip in a quote | past | Kid | twice property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | 10 | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer 10=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | practice | pointless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spell in a quote | my | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Practice really is pointless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 pointless | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointless | cop |
| 4 | pointless | pointless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Practice | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | pointless property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Being lucky twice doesn't mean the words are learned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lucky | cop |
| 2 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | csubj |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 lucky | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learned | aux:pass |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mean | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | lucky, twice property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not mean | present · do-support | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | learn | present · passive | the words | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 3
He's a natural speller, so practising would only waste his time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 speller | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speller | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 speller | det |
| 4 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speller | amod |
| 5 | speller | speller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waste | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 waste | advmod |
| 8 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 waste | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 waste | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 waste | advmod |
| 11 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 speller | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 time | nmod:poss |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waste | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a natural speller | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | practise | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | waste | would | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Spelling tests are easy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tests | compound |
| 2 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Spelling tests | easy 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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