Exam question 2 · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

Identify the principal reason for which oil paint brushes must be cleaned by an adult.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, adult · What happens: identify, clean · To what, where: principal reason, paint brushes

This is exam question 2 of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cleaned	obl
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paint	compound
8	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brushes	compound
9	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cleaned	nsubj:pass
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cleaned	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 cleaned	aux:pass
12	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 adult	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cleaned	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	clean	must · passive	a adult	paint brushes				for the principal reason	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Patient for which=Beneficiary

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

Water damages oil paint brushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 damages	nsubj
2	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paint	compound
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brushes	compound
5	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 damages	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present	Water	paint brushes					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient

Option 2

Oil paint cannot be washed off at all

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	6 washed	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 washed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 washed	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 washed	aux:pass
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 washed	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 washed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wash off	can · passive		Oil paint		all			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some special cleaners are poisonous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 cleaners	det
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cleaners	amod
3	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisonous	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 poisonous	cop
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some special cleaners					poisonous property	tree rules

Option 4

Children's hands stain permanently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hands	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stain	nsubj
4	stain	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	4 stain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	present	Children's hands					permanently property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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