Test 10 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool
Ruby's painted sky looks dull. How could she make it look brighter?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: painted sky, sky · What happens: paint, look, make · To what, where: it
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts 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.
The question
Sentence 1: Ruby's painted sky looks dull.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sky | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sky | amod |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looks | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | Ruby's painted sky | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: How could she make it look brighter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | sky | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | bright property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Add black paint into the sky to brighten it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paint | amod |
| 3 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brighten | mark |
| 8 | brighten | brighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Add | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brighten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | black paint | into the sky | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent paint=Patient into sky=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | brighten | to-infinitive | you not said here | paint | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Paint the land the same colour as the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 colour | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colour | amod |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paint | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | imperative | you not said here | the land | as the sky; the same colour obl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent land=Theme as sky=Attribute |
Option 3
Make the whole painting lighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 painting | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 painting | amod |
| 4 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 5 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the whole painting | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset painting=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Put darker colours beside it for contrast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 colours | amod |
| 3 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 contrast | case |
| 7 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | darker colours | it | for contrast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme beside it=Destination |
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