Test 11 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

Why do painters step back from their work?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: painters · What happens: step back, work · To what, where: work

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 14 «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 step	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 step	aux
3	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 step	nsubj
4	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 step	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 work	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 step	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step back	present · do-support	painters			painters's work			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from work=Trajectory
2	work		painters = painter						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

To rest their tired legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rest	mark
2	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 legs	nmod:poss
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	to-infinitive		their tired legs					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme

Option 2

To let the paint dry faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 let	mark
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dry	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 paint	det
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	to-infinitive		the paint					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme
2	dry	present						fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

To hide from the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 teacher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive						from the teacher	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from teacher=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To see the whole picture from a distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 picture	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picture	amod
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the whole picture				from a distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus

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