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title: Identify the principal reason for which thick masses of clay are lia… — Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal reason for which thick masses of clay are liable to fracture during firing. Exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Exam question 1 · Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime

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Identify the principal reason for which thick masses of clay are liable to fracture during firing.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, thick masses · **What happens:** identify, be, fracture · **To what, where:** principal reason

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Crafts: paper, clay, sewing, knitting, slime» 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/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which thick masses of clay are liable to fracture during firing.
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	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	liable	liable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	fracture	fracture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	firing	firing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | **is** | present | thick masses of clay |  |  |  |  | for the principal reason; liable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fracture** | to-infinitive | thick masses of clay *not said here* |  |  |  | during firing |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Thick clay is poor quality

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime:e1:o1:1
# text = Thick clay is poor quality
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Thick clay | poor quality |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thick clay is too heavy to be supported upon the shelves within the kiln

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime:e1:o2:1
# text = Thick clay is too heavy to be supported upon the shelves within the kiln
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thick clay |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **support** | to-infinitive · passive | Thick clay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the shelves; within the kiln | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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

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Trapped water becomes expanding steam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime:e1:o3:1
# text = Trapped water becomes expanding steam
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	expanding	expand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | present | Trapped water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expand** | gerund | Trapped water *not said here* | steam |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent steam=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The kiln is insufficiently hot to fire clay of considerable thickness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime:e1:o4:1
# text = The kiln is insufficiently hot to fire clay of considerable thickness
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kiln	kiln	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	insufficiently	insufficiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the kiln |  |  |  |  | hot, insufficiently *property* | 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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