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Test 11 · ★ · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

Maya says Serena was «just born good». Which is a fair reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maya · What happens: say, bear, be · To what, where: Serena, fair reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine 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: Maya says Serena was «just born good».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Serena	Serena	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 born	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 born	aux:pass
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 born	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 born	advmod
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 born	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 born	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Maya						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bear in a quote	past · passive		Serena				good property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 a fair reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reply	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reply	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair reply					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Practice can never beat talent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 beat	advmod
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not beat	can	Practice	talent					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location talent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Talent starts you off; practice keeps you going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 starts	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 starts	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct
6	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 starts	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keeps	obj
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start off	present	Talent	you					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	keep	present	practice	you					tree rules
3	go	gerund	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Serena never practised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serena	Serena	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 practised	advmod
3	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Serena	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not practise	participle		Serena not said here					tree rules

Option 4

Talent and practice are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 same	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 practice	cc
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Talent	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Talent and practice					same 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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