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title: Which plan uses 20 minutes best? — Practising when you would rather not · tree and pragmatics
description: Which plan uses 20 minutes best? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

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Which plan uses 20 minutes best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** plan, best · **What happens:** use, minute

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not:t8:1
# text = Which plan uses 20 minutes best?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | which plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **minute** |  | best |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Play the easiest piece over and over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not:t8:o1:1
# text = Play the easiest piece over and over
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* | the easiest piece |  |  |  | over *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Watch the clock and play whatever comes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not:t8:o2:1
# text = Watch the clock and play whatever comes
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the clock |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | present | whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Play the whole book through once at top speed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not:t8:o3:1
# text = Play the whole book through once at top speed
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* | the whole book |  | top speed |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fix one tricky bar slowly, then play a fun piece

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not:t8:o4:1
# text = Fix one tricky bar slowly, then play a fun piece
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | one tricky bar |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a fun piece |  |  | then |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |

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**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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