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title: «magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is rig… — Pencils, paper and school things · tree and pragmatics
description: «magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is right? Test 5 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · Pencils, paper and school things

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«magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** magazines, colours · **What happens:** use, colour, be

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t5:1
# text = «magazines use like a million inks for all them colours» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	magazines	magazine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	inks	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** *in a quote* | present | magazines |  |  |  |  | like million inks | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **colour** *in a quote* |  | magazines *= magazine* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | all colours |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About a million, one for each different shade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t5:o1:1
# text = About a million, one for each different shade
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two inks, red and blue, mixed together by hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t5:o2:1
# text = Two inks, red and blue, mixed together by hand
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	inks	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by hand; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just four inks in tiny dots make the colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t5:o3:1
# text = Just four inks in tiny dots make the colours
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inks	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | four inks in tiny dots | the colours |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only black ink, which the light makes look coloured

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:6-pencils-paper-and-school-things:t5:o4:1
# text = Only black ink, which the light makes look coloured
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the light | black ink |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
| 2 | **look** | present | black ink |  |  |  |  | coloured *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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