Test 8 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

What would happen if you painted watercolour onto a still-wet patch?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, paint · To what, where: watercolour, wet patch

This is test 8 · ★ 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 painted	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 painted	nsubj
6	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painted	obj
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 patch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 patch	det
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 wet	advmod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 still	punct
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 patch	amod
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painted	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	paint a condition, not said to happen	past	you	watercolour		a wet patch			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent watercolour=Theme onto patch=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

The new colour would spread into the wet part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colour	amod
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
5	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 part	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 part	det
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 part	amod
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	the new colour			the wet part			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into part=Destination

Option 2

The colour would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the colour						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The paper would turn to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paper	det
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the paper			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 4

The paint would sit perfectly still where it was put

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 sit	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 still	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 put	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	aux:pass
10	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	the paint				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past · passive		paint					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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