Test 5 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes
A cartoon artist uses only oil paint "because real artists never use anything else". What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon artist, real artists · What happens: use, not use, be · To what, where: oil paint, anything
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon artist uses only oil paint "because real artists never use anything else".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 artist | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 artist | compound |
| 3 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 paint | advmod |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paint | compound |
| 7 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 paint | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 use | mark |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 artists | amod |
| 11 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 use | advmod |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 uses | advcl |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 use | obj |
| 15 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 anything | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a cartoon artist | oil paint | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not use in a quote | present | real artists | anything | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Oil paint dries in seconds, so artists have to rush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paint | compound |
| 2 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dries | nsubj |
| 3 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 seconds | case |
| 5 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dries | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 8 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dries | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rush | mark |
| 11 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | present | Oil paint | second | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | artists | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rush | to-infinitive | artists not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, oil is the only real paint there is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 oil | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paint | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 paint | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 paint | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 paint | amod |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 paint | amod |
| 8 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 paint | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing oil | the only real paint | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | the only real paint not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many famous modern artists used acrylics
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 artists | amod |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 artists | amod |
| 3 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 artists | amod |
| 4 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | nsubj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | acrylics | acrylic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Many famous modern artists | acrylics | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acrylic=Patient |
Option 4
Real artists only use crayons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 artists | amod |
| 2 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | crayons | crayon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Real artists | crayons | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crayon=Patient |
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