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title: Which is true about practising a musical instrument? — Console games, building, crafts, music… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about practising a musical instrument? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music 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.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

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Which is true about practising a musical instrument?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, practise · **To what, where:** musical instrument

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music 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/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t2:1
# text = Which is true about practising a musical instrument?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **practise** | gerund |  | a musical instrument |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Short daily practice builds skill faster than one long weekly session

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t2:o1:1
# text = Short daily practice builds skill faster than one long weekly session
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Playing a piece fast is the quickest way to learn it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t2:o2:1
# text = Playing a piece fast is the quickest way to learn it
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	quickest	quick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | a piece |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Playing | the quickest way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  | piece |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mistakes disappear by themselves if you keep going

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t2:o3:1
# text = Mistakes disappear by themselves if you keep going
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disappear	disappear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | present | Mistakes |  |  |  |  | by Mistakes *= mistake* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Practising once a week for a long time is just as good as every day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t2:o4:1
# text = Practising once a week for a long time is just as good as every day
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Practising |  |  |  | day | good *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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