Test 4 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

What would happen if instructions for building a model were in the wrong order?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, build, be · To what, where: model, wrong order

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the English 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	_	5 instructions	mark
5	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 building	mark
7	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 order	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 model	det
9	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 building	obj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 order	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 order	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 order	det
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 order	amod
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	build	gerund	a model		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset model=Product
3	is	past		the wrong order	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

Nothing, because order never matters in instructions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 matters	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 matters	mark
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matters	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 matters	advmod
6	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 instructions	case
8	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	order			instructions			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The model would build itself correctly anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 model	det
2	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 build	aux
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 build	obj
6	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 build	advmod
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 build	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	would	the model	model				anyway, correctly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Product

Option 3

The reader would enjoy it more as a mystery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reader	det
2	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enjoy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 enjoy	aux
4	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 enjoy	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 enjoy	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 mystery	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mystery	det
9	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enjoy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	would	the reader	it				as a mystery	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The reader could get stuck or build it wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reader	det
2	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 build	cc
7	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 build	obj
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 build	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	the reader					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	build	present	the reader not said here	reader				wrong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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