Test 8 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool

Nan says her old book called purple "for kings". What would have happened if purple dye had been cheap back then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, old book, purple dye · What happens: say, call, happen, be · To what, where: old book, purple · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Nan says her old book called purple "for kings".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 book	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 book	amod
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 book	acl
7	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 purple	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 kings	case
10	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 purple	nmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kings	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan	Nan's old book					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	call	participle	Nan's old book not said here	purple for kings					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 would have happened if purple dye had been cheap back then?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 cheap	mark
6	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dye	amod
7	dye	dye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cheap	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cheap	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cheap	cop
10	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happened	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cheap	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	purple dye				then	cheap property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Purple would have vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 vanished	aux
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would · perfect	Purple						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would change about who wore it or how much it cost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 wore	mark
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wore	nsubj
6	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 change	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wore	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 much	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wore	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 much	nsubj
12	cost	cost	PUNCT	_	3 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	past		it					tree rules

Option 3

Kings would have worn even more purple than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worn	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worn	aux
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 purple	advmod
7	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worn	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 purple	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	would · perfect · passive		Kings				purple property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lots of ordinary people could have worn purple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worn	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lots	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 worn	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 worn	aux
7	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 worn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	could · perfect · passive		Lots of ordinary people				purple property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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