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title: Identify the most effective pattern of practice for improving a skill. — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the most effective pattern of practice for improving a skill. Exam question 1 of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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.
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# Exam question 1 · Younger children, losing and practising

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Identify the most effective pattern of practice for improving a skill.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, effective pattern, practice · **What happens:** identify, improve, pattern · **To what, where:** effective pattern, skill

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 251 «Younger children, losing and practising» 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/251-younger-children-losing-and-practising/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising:e1:1
# text = Identify the most effective pattern of practice for improving a skill.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	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	_	7	case	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	improving	improve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the effective pattern of practice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 2 | **improve** | gerund | the effective pattern of practice *not said here* | a skill |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | practice |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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Practice only before a match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising:e1:o1:1
# text = Practice only before a match
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	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One very long session a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising:e1:o2:1
# text = One very long session a year
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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

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Regular short sessions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising:e1:o3:1
# text = Regular short sessions
1	Regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sessions	session	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Practice only when one is not tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising:e1:o4:1
# text = Practice only when one is not tired
1	Practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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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