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title: What would happen if you built a tall tower of single bricks straigh… — Lego builds: instructions vs your own… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you built a tall tower of single bricks straight on top of each other? Test 2 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 2 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas

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What would happen if you built a tall tower of single bricks straight on top of each other?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, build · **To what, where:** tall tower, top

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This is test 2 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t2:1
# text = What would happen if you built a tall tower of single bricks straight on top of each other?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **build** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a tall tower of single bricks |  | top of each |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tower=Theme on top=Source |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would bend like rubber

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t2:o1:1
# text = It would bend like rubber
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | would | It |  |  |  |  | like rubber | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would bend over a little bit but it would never break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t2:o2:1
# text = It would bend over a little bit but it would never break
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | would | It |  |  | a little bit |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bit=Location |
| 2 | **not** **break** | would | bit |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would likely snap at the joins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t2:o3:1
# text = It would likely snap at the joins
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joins	join	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snap** | would | It |  |  | the joins |  | likely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at join=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would be the strongest kind of tower that you could build

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:32-lego-builds-instructions-vs-your-own-ideas:t2:o4:1
# text = It would be the strongest kind of tower that you could build
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | It | the strongest kind |  |  |  | of tower | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | could | the strongest kind |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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**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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