Test 2 · Being bad at something and keeping going

What would happen if Yuki kept playing the whole piece every day with the same mistake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Yuki · What happens: happen, keep, play · To what, where: whole piece

This is test 2 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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 kept	mark
5	Yuki	Yuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 piece	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 piece	amod
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl:unmarked
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 mistake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mistake	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mistake	amod
16	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Yuki				tree rules
3	play	gerund	Yuki not said here	the whole piece	day	with the same mistake	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent piece=Theme with mistake=Co-Agent

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

The mistake would stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistake	det
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	would	the mistake						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The mistake would fix itself after about a hundred tries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistake	det
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fix	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fix	aux
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 fix	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	10 tries	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 hundred	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hundred	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 tries	nummod
10	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fix	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would	the mistake	mistake			after hundred tries		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 3

The piece would get easier without her doing anything else

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	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 doing	nmod:poss
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 get	advcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 doing	obj
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 anything	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the piece					easy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	gerund	the piece not said here	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 4

Her teacher would remove bar 12 from the music for her

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 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remove	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remove	aux
4	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remove	obj
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 bar	flat
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 music	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 music	det
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remove	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	would	Her teacher	bar		the music		for her = she	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bar=Theme from music=Source

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