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# Exam question 1 · Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there

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Identify the principal reason for which visitors to a museum are requested to refrain from touching works of art.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, art · **What happens:** identify, request, refrain, touch, work · **To what, where:** principal reason, visitors, works

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which visitors to a museum are requested to refrain from touching works of art.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	requested	request	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **request** | present · passive |  | visitors to a museum |  |  |  | for the principal reason | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **refrain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund |  | works of art |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme work=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **work** |  | art |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The wetness of the paint upon the canvas, which adheres to the hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:e1:o1:1
# text = The wetness of the paint upon the canvas, which adheres to the hands
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wetness	wetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	adheres	adhere	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adhere** | present | the wetness of the paint upon the canvas |  |  |  |  | to the hands | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to hand=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The wish of the attendants to exercise authority

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:e1:o2:1
# text = The wish of the attendants to exercise authority
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	exercise	exercise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exercise** | to-infinitive |  | authority |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient |
| 2 | **wish** |  | the attendants |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The cumulative damage occasioned by oils and moisture from the hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:e1:o3:1
# text = The cumulative damage occasioned by oils and moisture from the hands
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cumulative	cumulative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	occasioned	occasion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oils	oil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	moisture	moisture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occasion** | participle |  | the cumulative damage *not said here* |  | the hands |  | by oils and moisture | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The danger of electric shock from the frames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:e1:o4:1
# text = The danger of electric shock from the frames
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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