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title: What would happen if you painted watercolour onto a still-wet patch? — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you painted watercolour onto a still-wet patch? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

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What would happen if you painted watercolour onto a still-wet patch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, paint · **To what, where:** watercolour, wet patch

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t8:1
# text = What would happen if you painted watercolour onto a still-wet patch?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | watercolour |  | a wet patch |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent watercolour=Theme onto patch=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The new colour would spread into the wet part

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t8:o1:1
# text = The new colour would spread into the wet part
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | would | the new colour |  |  | the wet part |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into part=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The colour would vanish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t8:o2:1
# text = The colour would vanish
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | the colour |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The paper would turn to stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t8:o3:1
# text = The paper would turn to stone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the paper |  |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The paint would sit perfectly still where it was put

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t8:o4:1
# text = The paint would sit perfectly still where it was put
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | would | the paint |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past · passive |  | paint |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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