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title: «just start building, instructions are for babies». Which is true? — Homework, practice and the team counti… · tree and pragmatics
description: «just start building, instructions are for babies». Which is true? Test 8 of lesson 351 «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 8 · Homework, practice and the team counting on you

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«just start building, instructions are for babies». Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, instructions · **What happens:** start, be · **To what, where:** building

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This is test 8 of lesson 351 «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «just start building, instructions are for babies».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:1
# text = «just start building, instructions are for babies».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | building |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | instructions |  |  |  |  | for babies | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:2
# text = Which is true?
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	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 |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Reading first always takes longer than just starting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:o1:1
# text = Reading first always takes longer than just starting
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present | Reading | longer |  |  |  | always *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | gerund | Reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Experts never read instructions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:o2:1
# text = Experts never read instructions
1	Experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | past | Experts | instructions |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Instructions are always wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:o3:1
# text = Instructions are always wrong
1	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Reading first usually saves time and mistakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play:t8:o4:1
# text = Reading first usually saves time and mistakes
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | present | Reading |  |  |  | time | usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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