Test 11 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

What would happen if Darya practised bar 12 slowly ten times, then joined it to the bars around it?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 3 «Practising when you would rather not» 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	_	6 practised	mark
5	Darya	Darya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 practised	nsubj
6	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	ccomp
7	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 practised	obj
8	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 bar	flat
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 ten	advmod
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 practised	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 joined	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 joined	advmod
14	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 joined	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bars	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bars	det
18	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 joined	obl
19	around	around	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bars	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					tree rules
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	past	Darya	bar	time		tree rules
3	join	past		bar	then	to the bars around bar	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to bar=Co-Patient

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

Bar 12 would most likely stop tripping her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Bar	flat
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tripping	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 tripping	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Bar					likely property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trip up	gerund	Bar not said here	Bar					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent

Option 2

She would forget the rest of the piece

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 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 piece	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 piece	det
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	She	the rest of the piece					tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, slow practice never helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 helps	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 practice	punct
3	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 practice	amod
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 helps	advmod
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present	Nothing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Bar 12 would get even harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Bar	flat
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

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

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