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title: What would happen if instructions for building a model were in the w… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if instructions for building a model were in the wrong order? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the English 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 4 · ★★ · Writing to inform, instruct and persuade

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t4:1
# text = What would happen if instructions for building a model were in the wrong order?
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	_	5	mark	_	_
5	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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** | gerund |  | a model |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset model=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the wrong order |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing, because order never matters in instructions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because order never matters in instructions
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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The model would build itself correctly anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t4:o2:1
# text = The model would build itself correctly anyway
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	build	build	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	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The reader would enjoy it more as a mystery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t4:o3:1
# text = The reader would enjoy it more as a mystery
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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The reader could get stuck or build it wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade:t4:o4:1
# text = The reader could get stuck or build it wrong
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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