--- title: Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Show day brings the whole course together: paintings and clay on the walls and tables, an orchestra tuning up, a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Show day: the exhibition, the concert… # Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz Lesson 40 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/0/) — Show day brings the whole course together: paintings and clay on the walls and tables, an orchestra tuning up, a school play, a dance show, and a big quiz on everything from the Mona Lisa to Toy Story. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/1/) — The lessons of the course all meet here: art is made by people who practise, make mistakes and keep going; music, film, theatre and dance are teamwork; and almost everything around you was designed by someone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/2/) — Show day also tests how you look at art: check the facts before you guess ("first", "biggest", "from where"), give credit, give kind and specific feedback, and remember that taste is argued. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/3/) — And if your clay owl cracks or you forget a line, you show it anyway and carry on, because the work and what you learned count, not only a perfect result. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/4/) — People say it their own way: "eh" in Canada means right?, "yaar" in India means mate, "bestie" means best friend, "stuffed" in Australia means broken, and "bare" in London means very. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/5/) — The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s, is quite small, about 77 by 53 centimetres, and hangs behind glass in the Louvre in Paris. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/6/) — The Mona Lisa became even more famous after it was stolen in 1911 and found two years later. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/7/) — Before a concert the orchestra tunes to one note, usually an A played by the oboe, so everyone plays in tune together. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/9/) — The erhu is a Chinese instrument with two strings played with a bow, and it can sound almost like a singing voice; the Ukrainian bandura has dozens of strings and is plucked. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/10/) — Toy Story, by Pixar in 1995, was the first full-length film made entirely by computer animation; Shrek came later, in 2001. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/11/) — A film is many still pictures, called frames, shown quickly, traditionally 24 every second in the cinema. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/12/) — "Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/13/) — When an actor forgets a line, making something up to keep the scene going is called improvising, and audiences usually forgive it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/14/) — Ballet began in the courts of Renaissance Italy and was developed in France, especially under King Louis XIV, which is why many ballet words are French. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/15/) — Cracks are common in pottery; the Japanese art of kintsugi even repairs broken pots with gold so the cracks become part of the beauty. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/16/) — Almost everything people make was designed by someone: chairs, signs, logos, books, phones, bags and clothes. - ← previous: [Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/) - next →: [Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)