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title: Which is true about cleaning paintbrushes? — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about cleaning paintbrushes? Test 8 · ★ 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 the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 8 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

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Which is true about cleaning paintbrushes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, clean · **To what, where:** paintbrushes

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t8:1
# text = Which is true about cleaning paintbrushes?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	paintbrushes	paintbrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean** | gerund |  | paintbrushes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent paintbrush=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 {#o1}

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All paint washes out in plain water if you rinse it long enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t8:o1:1
# text = All paint washes out in plain water if you rinse it long enough
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rinse	rinse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash out** | present | all paint |  |  | plain water |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rinse** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | paint |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All brushes need the strong garage cleaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t8:o2:1
# text = All brushes need the strong garage cleaner
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	garage	garage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | all brushes | the strong garage cleaner |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaner=Theme |

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

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Watercolour rinses out in water, oil paint needs special cleaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t8:o3:1
# text = Watercolour rinses out in water, oil paint needs special cleaner
1	Watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rinses	rinse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rinse out** | present | Watercolour |  |  | water |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | present | oil paint | special cleaner |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaner=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Paint does not harm brushes left to dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t8:o4:1
# text = Paint does not harm brushes left to dry
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **harm** | present · do-support | Paint | brushes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brush=Experiencer |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | brushes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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