Test 2 · ★ · Practising when you would rather not

What would happen if you always practised a piece fast with lots of mistakes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, practise · To what, where: piece

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	7 practised	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 practised	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 practised	advmod
7	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 piece	det
9	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practised	obj
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 practised	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 lots	case
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 practised	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 mistakes	case
14	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lots	nmod
15	?	?	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	you	a piece				with lots of mistakes; always, fast property	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

You would play perfectly at the concert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 play	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 play	aux
3	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 play	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 concert	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 concert	det
7	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	would	You			the concert		perfectly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Your fingers would learn the mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fingers	nmod:poss
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mistakes	det
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Your fingers	the mistakes					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic

Option 3

The piece would simply get easier on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 easier	obl

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

Option 4

The mistakes would vanish by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistakes	det
2	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 vanish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the mistakes					by mistakes = mistake	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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