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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of sleep upon the learning of movement skills. Exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 3 · Being bad at something and keeping going

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of sleep upon the learning of movement skills.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, effect · **To what, where:** response, effect, sleep

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of sleep upon the learning of movement skills.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the effect of sleep |  |  |  | upon the learning of movement skills | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus effect=Experiencer |
| 4 | **effect** |  |  | sleep |  |  |  | upon the learning of movement skills | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient upon=obl |

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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 {#o1}

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Sleep causes the loss of movements practised the previous day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:e3:o1:1
# text = Sleep causes the loss of movements practised the previous day
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Sleep |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **practise** | past | the loss of movements |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleep has no effect whatsoever upon any form of learning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:e3:o2:1
# text = Sleep has no effect whatsoever upon any form of learning
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Sleep | no effect |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | learning |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Sleep assists the brain in storing new movement skills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:e3:o3:1
# text = Sleep assists the brain in storing new movement skills
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	assists	assist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | present | Sleep | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **store** | gerund | Sleep *not said here* | new movement skills |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sleep assists learning solely in the case of adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:e3:o4:1
# text = Sleep assists learning solely in the case of adults
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	assists	assist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund | Sleep assists |  |  | the case of adults |  | solely *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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