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description: Identify the principal reason for which oil paint brushes must be cleaned by an adult. Exam question 2 of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 2 · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

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Identify the principal reason for which oil paint brushes must be cleaned by an adult.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, adult · **What happens:** identify, clean · **To what, where:** principal reason, paint brushes

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday 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/everyday/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which oil paint brushes must be cleaned by an adult.
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	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **clean** | must · passive | a adult | paint brushes |  |  |  | for the principal reason | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Patient for which=Beneficiary |

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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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Water damages oil paint brushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:e2:o1:1
# text = Water damages oil paint brushes
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	damages	damage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | present | Water | paint brushes |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oil paint cannot be washed off at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:e2:o2:1
# text = Oil paint cannot be washed off at all
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wash off** | can · passive |  | Oil paint |  | all |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Some special cleaners are poisonous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:e2:o3:1
# text = Some special cleaners are poisonous
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children's hands stain permanently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:e2:o4:1
# text = Children's hands stain permanently
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stain	stain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | present | Children's hands |  |  |  |  | permanently *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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