Test 6 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

What would probably happen if you practised piano once a month for three hours instead of a little every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, practise · To what, where: piano

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 practised	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 practised	nsubj
7	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	ccomp
8	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practised	obj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 practised	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 once	obl:unmarked
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hours	nummod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 practised	obl
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	20 day	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hours	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	tree rules
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	past	you	piano			hour	once 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 · ← Mova's choice

You would improve much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 improve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 improve	aux
3	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 improve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	would	You					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

You would improve at exactly the same speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 improve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 improve	aux
3	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 speed	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 speed	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speed	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speed	amod
8	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 improve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	would	You			the same speed			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You would improve more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 improve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 improve	aux
3	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 improve	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 improve	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	would	You					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

You would forget how to read music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 read	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	You						tree rules
2	not read	to-infinitive	You not said here	music					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Topic

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