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title: A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write. Why? — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics
description: A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write. Why? Test 4 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology 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 4 · Pencils, paper and school things

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A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** felt tip · **What happens:** leave, not write · **To what, where:** felt tip

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This is test 4 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» of the technology 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/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:1
# text = A felt-tip left without its cap all weekend won't write.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a felt tip *not said here* |  |  | weekend | without tip's cap | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **write** | future | a felt tip |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The liquid in the ink evaporated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:o1:1
# text = The liquid in the ink evaporated
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evaporate** | participle · passive |  | the liquid in the ink |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Light stole all the colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:o2:1
# text = Light stole all the colour
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | Light | all colour |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pens wear out from resting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:o3:1
# text = Pens wear out from resting
1	Pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | present | Pens |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | Pens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The felt grew mould over the weekend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t4:o4:1
# text = The felt grew mould over the weekend
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	felt	felt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the felt | mould |  |  | weekend |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mould=Theme |

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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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