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Test 8 · Homework, practice and the team counting on you

«just start building, instructions are for babies». Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, instructions · What happens: start, be · To what, where: building

This is test 8 of lesson 351 «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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: «just start building, instructions are for babies».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 start	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 start	advmod
3	start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 babies	punct
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 babies	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 babies	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 babies	case
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 babies	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start in a quote	imperative	you not said here	building					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	instructions					for babies	tree rules

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: Which is true?

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	?	?	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

Reading first always takes longer than just starting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 takes	csubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Reading	advmod
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 takes	advmod
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 takes	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 longer	fixed
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 starting	advmod
8	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 takes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund						first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	Reading	longer				always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme
3	start	gerund	Reading not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Experts never read instructions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 read	advmod
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	past	Experts	instructions					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic

Option 3

Instructions are always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrong	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Instructions					always, wrong property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reading first usually saves time and mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saves	csubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Reading	advmod
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 saves	advmod
4	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saves	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mistakes	cc
7	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund						first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	save	present	Reading				time	usually property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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