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title: What would happen if Yuki kept playing the whole piece every day wit… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Yuki kept playing the whole piece every day with the same mistake? Test 2 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Being bad at something and keeping going

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What would happen if Yuki kept playing the whole piece every day with the same mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Yuki · **What happens:** happen, keep, play · **To what, where:** whole piece

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This is test 2 of lesson 37 «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t2:1
# text = What would happen if Yuki kept playing the whole piece every day with the same mistake?
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	Yuki	Yuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Yuki |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | Yuki *not said here* | the whole piece |  |  | day | with the same mistake | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent piece=Theme with mistake=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The mistake would stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t2:o1:1
# text = The mistake would stick
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | would | the mistake |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The mistake would fix itself after about a hundred tries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t2:o2:1
# text = The mistake would fix itself after about a hundred tries
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would | the mistake | mistake |  |  | after hundred tries |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The piece would get easier without her doing anything else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t2:o3:1
# text = The piece would get easier without her doing anything else
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the piece |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the piece *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her teacher would remove bar 12 from the music for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going:t2:o4:1
# text = Her teacher would remove bar 12 from the music for her
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | would | Her teacher | bar |  | the music |  | for her *= she* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bar=Theme from music=Source |

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