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Test 4 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

Sam forgot to wash his acrylic paintbrush and left it until Saturday. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: forget, not wash, leave, happen · To what, where: acrylic paintbrush, paintbrush

This is test 4 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday 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: Sam forgot to wash his acrylic paintbrush and left it until Saturday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wash	mark
4	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 paintbrush	nmod:poss
6	acrylic	acrylic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paintbrush	amod
7	paintbrush	paintbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	obj
11	until	until	ADP	_	12 Saturday	case
12	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Sam						tree rules
2	not wash	to-infinitive	Sam not said here	Sam's acrylic paintbrush					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paintbrush=Patient
3	leave	past	Sam not said here	paintbrush			saturday		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The paint dried hard and ruined the brush

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	6 ruined	nsubj
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 paint	acl
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 dried	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dried	cc
6	ruined	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brush	det
8	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle		the paint not said here				hard property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	ruin	past	the paint	the brush					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient

Option 2

The paint turned into water

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	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

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

Option 3

The brush got softer and better to paint with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brush	det
2	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 softer	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 paint	mark
8	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 paint	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the brush					soft property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	paint	to-infinitive	the brush not said here						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The brush grew longer bristles while it was waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brush	det
2	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bristles	amod
5	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 waiting	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 waiting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waiting	aux
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the brush	longer bristles					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bristle=Theme
2	wait	past · progressive	brush						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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