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title: Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days". What is true? — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days". What is true? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai,…

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Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days". What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** uncle, women · **What happens:** reckon, not paint, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days".

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:1
# text = Your uncle reckons "women didn't paint in the old days".
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Your uncle |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **paint** *in a quote* | past · do-support | women |  |  |  | day |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «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 is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Many did but were blocked or forgotten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:o1:1
# text = Many did but were blocked or forgotten
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Many |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **block** | past · passive | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **forget** | participle | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He's right, no women painted before 1900

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:o2:1
# text = He's right, no women painted before 1900
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
7	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | no women *not said here* |  | 1900 |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent before 1900=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Women were only allowed to paint shrimps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:o3:1
# text = Women were only allowed to paint shrimps
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	paint	paint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Women |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **paint** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Women *not said here* | shrimps |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shrimp=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Women painted, but only men's portraits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:16-famous-artists-simply:t7:o4:1
# text = Women painted, but only men's portraits
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	portraits	portrait	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** | past | Women | men's portraits |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **portray** |  | men |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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