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title: Emma calls pysanka patterns "just doodles". What would be a good rep… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Emma calls pysanka patterns "just doodles". What would be a good reply? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes

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Emma calls pysanka patterns "just doodles". What would be a good reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Emma · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** pysanka patterns, good reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Emma calls pysanka patterns "just doodles".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:1
# text = Emma calls pysanka patterns "just doodles".
1	Emma	Emma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pysanka	pysanka	X	FW	_	4	compound	_	_
4	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	doodles	doodle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Emma | pysanka patterns |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pattern=Recipient |

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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 would be a good reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:2
# text = What would be a good reply?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would |  | a good reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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She's right, folk art never means anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:o1:1
# text = She's right, folk art never means anything
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present | folk art | anything |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

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

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Many folk patterns carry old meanings and stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:o2:1
# text = Many folk patterns carry old meanings and stories
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Many folk patterns | old meanings and stories |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pysanky are only coloured with felt tips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:o3:1
# text = Pysanky are only coloured with felt tips
1	Pysanky	Pysanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **colour** | present · passive |  | Pysanky |  |  |  | with felt tips | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pysanky are a kind of pizza

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes:t9:o4:1
# text = Pysanky are a kind of pizza
1	Pysanky	Pysanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pizza	pizza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pysanky | a kind |  |  |  | of pizza | tree rules |

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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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