Test 2 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool

Isla's brother says, "Colours don't have temperatures, ya eejit." Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Colours · What happens: say, not have, be · To what, where: temperatures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Isla's brother says, "Colours don't have temperatures, ya eejit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Isla	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	Colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
11	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ya	punct
13	ya	ya	X	_	10 have	parataxis
14	eejit	eejit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ya	goeswith
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Isla's brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have in a quote	present · do-support	Colours	temperatures					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Patient

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: Who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only the brother, because colours have no feeling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 brother	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brother	acl:relcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 feeling	det
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	colours	no feeling					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient

Option 2

Only Isla, because blue paint is actually cold to touch and red paint is warm

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Isla	advmod
2	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cold	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 cold	mark
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paint	amod
6	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cold	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 cold	advmod
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Isla	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 touch	mark
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cold	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 warm	cc
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 paint	amod
14	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 warm	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 warm	cop
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	blue paint	actually, cold property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	blue paint not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	red paint	warm property	tree rules

Option 3

Neither, because all colours feel the same to everyone, whatever they look like

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 feel	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 feel	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 colours	det
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feel	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 feel	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whatever	punct
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 everyone	appos
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 whatever	acl:relcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	14 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	all colours	the same				to everyone; neither property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme
2	look	present	colours = colour						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both partly: paint isn't hot, but warm and cool colours change the mood

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 paint	det
2	partly	partly	ADV	_	1 Both	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hot	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hot	advmod
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 change	cc
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 colours	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cool	cc
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warm	conj
13	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 change	nsubj
14	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mood	det
16	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	both paint					hot property	tree rules
2	change	present	warm colours	the mood					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Patient

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