--- title: Ascertain the manner of practice that builds a skill most quickly. — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the manner of practice that builds a skill most quickly. Exam question 4 of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/e4/) [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/) / [Learning a skill, and coins and notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/260-learning-skills-and-coins/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Learning a skill, and coins and notes Ascertain the manner of practice that builds a skill most quickly. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, practice · **What happens:** ascertain, build · **To what, where:** manner, skill This is exam question 4 of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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/260-learning-skills-and-coins/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the manner of practice that builds a skill most quickly. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 11 advmod _ _ 11 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the manner of practice | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic | | 2 | **build** | present | practice | a skill | | | | quickly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skill=Product | 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} One long session each week ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:e4:o1:1 # text = One long session each week 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 session session NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} A little every day, even ten minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:e4:o2:1 # text = A little every day, even ten minutes 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Only on holidays ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:e4:o3:1 # text = Only on holidays 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Only when a test or performance approaches ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:e4:o4:1 # text = Only when a test or performance approaches 1 Only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 performance performance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 approaches approach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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