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title: Which is the best plan for Ling, who cannot draw hands? — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the best plan for Ling, who cannot draw hands? Test 9 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 and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · Being bad at something and keeping going

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Which is the best plan for Ling, who cannot draw hands?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** best plan · **What happens:** be, not draw · **To what, where:** best plan, hands

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This is test 9 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t9:1
# text = Which is the best plan for Ling, who cannot draw hands?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ling	Ling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the best plan |  |  |  | for Ling | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **draw** | can | the best plan | hands |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

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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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Only ever drawing animals so hands never appear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t9:o1:1
# text = Only ever drawing animals so hands never appear
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund |  | animals |  |  | ever |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **appear** | present | hands |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Copying hands exactly from another artist's comic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t9:o2:1
# text = Copying hands exactly from another artist's comic
1	Copying	copy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | gerund |  | hands |  | another artist |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Ten quick hand sketches a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t9:o3:1
# text = Ten quick hand sketches a week
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sketches	sketch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sketch** | present | Ten quick hand |  |  |  | week |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Waiting until she grows up, when hands get easier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t9:o4:1
# text = Waiting until she grows up, when hands get easier
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow up** | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | hands |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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