Test 3 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

What would happen to an old painting cleaned by a restorer who removes dirt and yellow varnish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: restorer · What happens: happen, clean, remove · To what, where: old painting, dirt

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 painting	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 painting	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 painting	amod
7	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 painting	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 restorer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 restorer	det
11	restorer	restorer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleaned	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 removes	nsubj
13	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 restorer	acl:relcl
14	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 removes	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 varnish	cc
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 varnish	amod
17	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dirt	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a old painting	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	clean	participle		a old painting not said here	by a restorer	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	remove	present	a restorer	dirt and yellow varnish		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Brighter colours could show again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 colours	amod
2	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	could	Brighter colours				again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The paint would fall off the canvas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paint	det
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canvas	det
7	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	would	the paint	the canvas					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient canvas=Extent

Option 3

It would turn completely black within a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
6	within	within	ADP	_	9 days	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 days	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It				day	black, completely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would ever change, however long it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 change	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing				ever	long property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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