Test 4 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool
A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, blind character · What happens: show, see, be · To what, where: blind character, world, black
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A cartoon shows a colour-blind character who sees the world in black and white.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 character | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blind | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 colour | punct |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 character | amod |
| 8 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sees | nsubj |
| 10 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 character | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sees | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 black | case |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sees | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 white | cc |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 black | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a blind character | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent character=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | present | a blind character | the world | black | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=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: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Most colour-blind people just mix up certain colours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 people | amod |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blind | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 colour | punct |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mix | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 mix | advmod |
| 7 | mix | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 mix | compound:prt |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 colours | amod |
| 10 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mix | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | present | Most blind people | certain colours | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Colour-blind people see extra colours that others miss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blind | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Colour | punct |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colours | amod |
| 7 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 miss | obj |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 miss | nsubj |
| 10 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 colours | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | blind people | extra colours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | miss | present | others | extra colours | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 3
Nothing, that is how all colour blindness works
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 how | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 how | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 blindness | det |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blindness | compound |
| 8 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | nsubj |
| 9 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 how | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | present | all colour blindness | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Colour blindness doesn't exist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blindness | compound |
| 2 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exist | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 exist | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 exist | advmod |
| 5 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not exist | present · do-support | Colour blindness | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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