Test 5 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool
A football kit is orange and blue and everyone says it's "fire" (great). What makes it stand out?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: football kit, everyone, kit · What happens: be, say, make, stand out · To what, where: fire, kit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 football kit is orange and blue and everyone says it's "fire" (great).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kit | det |
| 2 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kit | compound |
| 3 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 orange | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | cop |
| 5 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blue | cc |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 orange | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 says | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 orange | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fire | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fire | cop |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fire | amod |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 orange | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a football kit | orange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a football kit not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | kit | fire | tree rules |
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 makes it stand out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stand | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | kit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand out | infinitive | kit not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The colours are the same, so they blend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colours | det |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 same | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blend | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 blend | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 blend | nsubj |
| 9 | blend | blend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 same | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the colours | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blend | present | colours = colour | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Complementary colours make each other stronger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complementary | complementary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 colours | amod |
| 2 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Complementary colours | each | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset each=Product |
Option 3
Orange is a cool colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orange | Orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colour | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 colour | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 4 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colour | amod |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Orange | a cool colour | tree rules |
Option 4
Blue is a warm colour, just like orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colour | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 colour | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 colour | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colour | amod |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 orange | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 orange | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 orange | case |
| 9 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 colour | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Blue | a warm colour and orange | tree rules |
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