Test 2 · Music lessons and the recorder

What would happen if a whole class practised the recorder every week for a term?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole class · What happens: happen, practise · To what, where: recorder

This is test 2 of lesson 1 «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 practised	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 class	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 class	amod
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practised	nsubj
8	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 recorder	det
10	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practised	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practised	obl:unmarked
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 term	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 term	det
15	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 practised	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	past	a whole class	the recorder			week	for a term	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They would sound exactly as rough at the end of term as on day one

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 rough	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 rough	case
6	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 term	case
11	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	3 sound	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	obl
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	They				at the end of term; day	rough property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location

Option 2

Only the loudest child would get any better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the loudest child					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The recorders would wear out and stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recorders	det
2	recorders	recorder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wear	aux
4	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wear	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wear	conj
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wear out	would	the recorders	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	stop	infinitive	the recorders not said here	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	the recorders not said here	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would most likely sound much clearer and more together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 sound	advmod
5	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 clearer	advmod
7	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sound	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 clearer	conj
10	together	together	ADV	_	5 sound	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	They					clear, likely, together property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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