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title: A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while pai… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting. What should it show? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 16 «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 4 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…

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A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting. What should it show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon, bed · **What happens:** show, snooze · **To what, where:** Michelangelo, back

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 16 «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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/16-famous-artists-simply/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:1
# text = A cartoon shows Michelangelo snoozing on his back on a bed while painting.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Michelangelo	Michelangelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	snoozing	snooze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | Michelangelo |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent michelangelo=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **snooze** | gerund | a cartoon *not said here* |  |  | cartoon's back |  | on a bed | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:2
# text = What should it show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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** | should | bed |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Him painting from a hot-air balloon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:o1:1
# text = Him painting from a hot-air balloon
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Him painting the ceiling with his feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:o2:1
# text = Him painting the ceiling with his feet
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	painting	paint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | gerund | Him *= he* | the ceiling |  |  |  | with his feet | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ceiling=Destination with foot=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Him painting on the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:o3:1
# text = Him painting on the floor
1	Him	him	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Him standing on a scaffold, head bent back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t4:o4:1
# text = Him standing on a scaffold, head bent back
1	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | Him *= he* |  |  | a scaffold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on scaffold=Location |
| 2 | **bend back** | participle |  | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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