Test 2 · Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet

What would happen if a beginner tried to dance on her toes with no training or shoes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beginner · What happens: happen, try, dance · To what, where: toes

This is test 2 of lesson 29 «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» 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	_	7 tried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beginner	det
6	beginner	beginner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dance	mark
9	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 toes	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 toes	nmod:poss
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dance	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 training	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 training	det
15	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toes	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 shoes	cc
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 training	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	a beginner		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	a beginner not said here	beginner's toes with no training or shoes	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

She could hurt her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	could	She	her feet					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She would float across the floor just like a professional dancer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 dancer	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 dancer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dancer	det
10	professional	professional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dancer	amod
11	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	She			the floor		like a professional dancer	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory

Option 3

Her toes would grow stronger straight away and stop hurting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 toes	nmod:poss
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj
10	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Her toes	away, strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	Her toes not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	hurt	gerund	Her toes not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing would happen, because toes are already very strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 strong	mark
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 strong	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
8	already	already	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	toes					strong property	tree rules

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