--- title: piano club is so hard, been 1 week, wanna quit — Learning a skill, and coins and notes · tree and pragmatics description: piano club is so hard, been 1 week, wanna quit Test 12 · ★★ 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 right. --- [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/t12/) [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/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★★ · Learning a skill, and coins and notes piano club is so hard, been 1 week, wanna quit **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** piano club · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 1 week This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 260 «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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/260-learning-skills-and-coins/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t12:1 # text = piano club is so hard, been 1 week, wanna quit 1 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 8 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 wanna wanna X FW Foreign=Yes 2 conj _ _ 12 quit quit X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | piano club and 1 week *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | participle | | 1 week | | | | | tree rules | 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} Quit today, it won't get any easier than it is now ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t12:o1:1 # text = Quit today, it won't get any easier than it is now 1 Quit quit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 8 any any ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 xcomp _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quit** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | now; today | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **get** | future | it | | | | | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **be** | present | it | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Never quit anything, ever ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t12:o2:1 # text = Never quit anything, ever 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 quit quit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **quit** | imperative | you *not said here* | anything | | | ever | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Source | ### Option 3 {#o3} Quit and start three new clubs ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t12:o3:1 # text = Quit and start three new clubs 1 Quit quit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 clubs club NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quit** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **start** | infinitive | you *not said here* | three new clubs | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Give it a fair try for some weeks, then decide with a parent ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:260-learning-skills-and-coins:t12:o4:1 # text = Give it a fair try for some weeks, then decide with a parent 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a fair try | it | | week | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient try=Theme | | 2 | **decide** | present | | | | | then | with a parent | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with parent=Co-Agent | **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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