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title: What would happen if Sophie entered her traced fox in a drawing comp… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, co… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Sophie entered her traced fox in a drawing competition as her own? Test 2 of lesson 35 «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 2 · Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit

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What would happen if Sophie entered her traced fox in a drawing competition as her own?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sophie · **What happens:** happen, enter, trace · **To what, where:** traced fox, drawing competition

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This is test 2 of lesson 35 «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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/35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit:t2:1
# text = What would happen if Sophie entered her traced fox in a drawing competition as her own?
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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **enter** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Sophie |  | Sophie's traced fox | a drawing competition |  | as Sophie's own | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Destination |
| 3 | **trace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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She would win because tracing is skill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit:t2:o1:1
# text = She would win because tracing is skill
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	tracing	tracing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | would | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | She *not said here* | tracing skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would be fine because she coloured it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit:t2:o2:1
# text = It would be fine because she coloured it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	coloured	colour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **colour** | past | she | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, competitions allow any tracing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit:t2:o3:1
# text = Nothing, competitions allow any tracing
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	competitions	competition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	tracing	tracing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | present | Nothing competitions | any tracing |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tracing=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would be dishonest, because she claimed it as original

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit:t2:o4:1
# text = It would be dishonest, because she claimed it as original
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	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | dishonest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | she | it |  |  |  | as original | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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