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title: Why do painters step back from their work? — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do painters step back from their work? Test 11 · ★ 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 11 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

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Why do painters step back from their work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** painters · **What happens:** step back, work · **To what, where:** work

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t11:1
# text = Why do painters step back from their work?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step back** | present · do-support | painters |  |  | painters's work |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from work=Trajectory |
| 2 | **work** |  | painters *= painter* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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To rest their tired legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t11:o1:1
# text = To rest their tired legs
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  | their tired legs |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To let the paint dry faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t11:o2:1
# text = To let the paint dry faster
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | the paint |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To hide from the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t11:o3:1
# text = To hide from the teacher
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the teacher | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from teacher=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To see the whole picture from a distance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t11:o4:1
# text = To see the whole picture from a distance
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the whole picture |  |  |  | from a distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus |

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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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