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title: Your mate goes, "one brush is enough for everything, innit." What's… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate goes, "one brush is enough for everything, innit." What's the problem? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 14 «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

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Your mate goes, "one brush is enough for everything, innit." What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, one brush, problem · **What happens:** go, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate goes, "one brush is enough for everything, innit."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:1
# text = Your mate goes, "one brush is enough for everything, innit."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | one brush |  |  |  |  | for everything; enough *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:2
# text = What's the problem?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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One brush is exactly what all real painters use for everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:o1:1
# text = One brush is exactly what all real painters use for everything
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | One brush |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | all real painters |  |  |  |  | for everything | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Different brushes suit big areas and small details

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:o2:1
# text = Different brushes suit big areas and small details
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** | present | Different brushes | big areas and small details |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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More brushes make the paint dry slower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:o3:1
# text = More brushes make the paint dry slower
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | More brushes | the paint |  |  |  | dry, slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material paint=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brushes are not needed for painting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t1:o4:1
# text = Brushes are not needed for painting
1	Brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · passive |  | Brushes |  |  |  | for painting | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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**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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