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title: A girl cannot do a cartwheel and wants to give up. What advice is be… — Rackets, running with things in your m… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl cannot do a cartwheel and wants to give up. What advice is best? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 328 «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 7 · ★ · Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or so…

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A girl cannot do a cartwheel and wants to give up. What advice is best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, advice · **What happens:** not do, want, give up, be · **To what, where:** cartwheel

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 328 «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl cannot do a cartwheel and wants to give up.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:1
# text = A girl cannot do a cartwheel and wants to give up.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cartwheel	cartwheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | can | a girl | a cartwheel |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartwheel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **give up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What advice is best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:2
# text = What advice is best?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | advice |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Try it once more and then stop forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:o1:1
# text = Try it once more and then stop forever
1	Try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | forever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only practise when people are watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:o2:1
# text = Only practise when people are watching
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	practise	practise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | present · progressive | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Practise one small part at a time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:o3:1
# text = Practise one small part at a time
1	Practise	practise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | imperative | you *not said here* | one small part |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wait until she is older without practising

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice:t7:o4:1
# text = Wait until she is older without practising
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advcl	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **practise** | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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