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title: Why must you not pull apart fingers stuck with super glue? — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must you not pull apart fingers stuck with super glue? Test 14 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday 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 14 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

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Why must you not pull apart fingers stuck with super glue?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not pull apart, stick · **To what, where:** fingers

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This is test 14 of lesson 245 «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday 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/everyday/245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t14:1
# text = Why must you not pull apart fingers stuck with super glue?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pull apart** | must | you | fingers |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 2 | **stick** | participle |  | fingers *not said here* |  |  |  | with super glue | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with glue=Instrument |

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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 {#o1}

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The fingers stay stuck forever anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t14:o1:1
# text = The fingers stay stuck forever anyway
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | the fingers |  |  |  |  | anyway, forever, stuck *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The glue spreads to your face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t14:o2:1
# text = The glue spreads to your face
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present | the glue |  |  |  |  | to your face | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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You can tear the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t14:o3:1
# text = You can tear the skin
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | can | You | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location skin=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It makes the glue stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t14:o4:1
# text = It makes the glue stronger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the glue |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material glue=Product |

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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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