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title: Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practis… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day. Who will probably improve faster? Test 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 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

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Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day. Who will probably improve faster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maya, Leo · **What happens:** practise, improve · **To what, where:** flute

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:1
# text = Maya practises the flute for 3 hours every Saturday, and Leo practises for 20 minutes every day.
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	practises	practise	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	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	practises	practise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present | Maya | the flute |  |  | for 3 hours; saturday |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **practise** | present | Leo |  |  |  | day; minute |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who will probably improve faster?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:2
# text = Who will probably improve faster?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | future |  |  |  |  |  | fast, probably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Maya, because she practises longer at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:o1:1
# text = Maya, because she practises longer at once
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	practises	practise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | present | Maya |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Leo, because daily practice builds skill faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:o2:1
# text = Leo, because daily practice builds skill faster
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present | Leo because daily practice | skill |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Neither, because practice does not help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:o3:1
# text = Neither, because practice does not help
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | practice |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Both exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t1:o4:1
# text = Both exactly the same
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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