--- title: Identify the more effective pattern of musical practice. — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the more effective pattern of musical practice. Exam question 1 of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Music practice and ball games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Music practice and ball games Identify the more effective pattern of musical practice. **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, musical practice · **What happens:** identify, pattern · **To what, where:** effective pattern This is exam question 1 of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:e1:1 # text = Identify the more effective pattern of musical practice. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 4 effective effective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 musical musical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the effective pattern of musical practice | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | | 2 | **pattern** | | musical practice | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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} Practice only when one feels like it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:e1:o1:1 # text = Practice only when one feels like it 1 Practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | Practice | | | | | like it | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Short practice every day ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:e1:o2:1 # text = Short practice every day 1 Short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Practice only before a concert ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:e1:o3:1 # text = Practice only before a concert 1 Practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A single long practice each week ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:e1:o4:1 # text = A single long practice each week 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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