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title: A girl in Texas gets a drop of super glue between two fingers. What… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and need… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Texas gets a drop of super glue between two fingers. What does this show? Test 3 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 right.
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# Test 3 · Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles

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A girl in Texas gets a drop of super glue between two fingers. What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, this · **What happens:** get, show · **To what, where:** drop

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Texas gets a drop of super glue between two fingers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:1
# text = A girl in Texas gets a drop of super glue between two fingers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a girl in Texas | a drop of super glue between two fingers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus |

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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 does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	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** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Super glue only sticks to wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:o1:1
# text = Super glue only sticks to wood
1	Super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present | Super glue |  |  |  |  | to wood | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wood=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Super glue sticks skin together very fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:o2:1
# text = Super glue sticks skin together very fast
1	Super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present | Super glue | skin |  |  |  | fast, together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Super glue is perfectly safe for children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:o3:1
# text = Super glue is perfectly safe for children
1	Super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Super glue |  |  |  |  | for children; perfectly, safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Super glue washes off at once with cold water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint:t3:o4:1
# text = Super glue washes off at once with cold water
1	Super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash off** | present | Super glue |  |  |  |  | with cold water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |

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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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