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title: Jack asks if Bilokur's flowers are a photo. What does this show? — Famous paintings and the stories behin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack asks if Bilokur's flowers are a photo. What does this show? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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 6 · ★★ · Famous paintings and the stories behind them

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Jack asks if Bilokur's flowers are a photo. What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack, flowers, this · **What happens:** ask, be, show · **To what, where:** photo

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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/15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jack asks if Bilokur's flowers are a photo.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:1
# text = Jack asks if Bilokur's flowers are a photo.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	Bilokur	Bilokur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Bilokur's flowers | a photo |  |  |  |  | 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 does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bilokur used a camera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:o1:1
# text = Bilokur used a camera
1	Bilokur	Bilokur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Bilokur | a camera |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Self-taught painters can reach amazing detail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:o2:1
# text = Self-taught painters can reach amazing detail
1	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | can | taught painters | amazing detail |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent detail=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only photos can show detail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:o3:1
# text = Only photos can show detail
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | can | photos | detail |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent detail=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Folk painters cannot paint detail without going to a proper art school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them:t6:o4:1
# text = Folk painters cannot paint detail without going to a proper art school
1	Folk	folk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **paint** | can | Folk painters | detail |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent detail=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Folk painters *not said here* |  |  | a proper art school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

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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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