Test 5 · ★★ · Famous paintings and the stories behind them
Ollie says sunflowers should only be painted fresh. What would have happened if Van Gogh had agreed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie, Van · What happens: say, paint, happen, agree · To what, where: sunflowers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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: Ollie says sunflowers should only be painted fresh.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 painted | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 painted | aux:pass |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 painted | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ollie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | paint | should · passive | sunflowers | fresh property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: What would have happened if Van Gogh had agreed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | mark |
| 6 | Van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 7 | Gogh | Gogh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Van | flat |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 agreed | aux |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Van | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He would have painted many more Starry Nights instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 painted | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 painted | aux |
| 4 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 painted | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 painted | advmod |
| 7 | Starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Nights | amod |
| 8 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 painted | obj |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 painted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | would · perfect | He | many | night | instead property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent many=Destination |
Option 2
All flowers in the world would stop wilting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 world | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flowers | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | aux |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | wilting | wilt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | all flowers in the world | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wilt | gerund | all flowers in the world not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
We would lose paintings showing life changing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lose | aux |
| 3 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lose | obj |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 paintings | acl |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changing | compound |
| 7 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 showing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | would | We | paintings | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | paintings not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change | gerund | paintings not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing at all would change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 change | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | would | Nothing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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