Test 2 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback

What would happen if Austin had stopped after his first butterfly?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Austin · What happens: happen, stop

This is test 2 of lesson 38 «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» 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 stopped	mark
5	Austin	Austin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	aux
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 butterfly	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 butterfly	nmod:poss
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 butterfly	amod
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	obl
12	?	?	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	stop a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Austin				after Austin's first butterfly		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

He would never have seen how much better it could get

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 seen	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seen	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would · perfect	He					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get	could	it						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

His classmates would have drawn it for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 classmates	nmod:poss
2	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 drawn	aux
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drawn	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	would · perfect · passive		His classmates				for him = he	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Result

Option 3

The butterfly would have turned out perfect anyway, as first tries always do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 turned	compound:prt
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	xcomp
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tries	amod
12	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn out	would · perfect · passive		the butterfly				anyway, perfect property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	do	present	first tries					always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

His first drawing would have improved by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 drawing	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 drawing	amod
3	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 improved	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 improved	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 improved	aux
6	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 improved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	would · perfect	His first drawing					by drawing	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	draw		His = he						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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