Test 9 · ★★ · Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool
Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow. Is that a mistake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Impressionist paintings · What happens: show, be · To what, where: blue shadows, snow, mistake
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Impressionist paintings show blue and purple shadows on snow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impressionist | impressionist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 paintings | amod |
| 2 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shadows | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 purple | cc |
| 6 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blue | conj |
| 7 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 snow | case |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadows | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Impressionist paintings | blue shadows | snow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shadow=Recipient |
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: Is that a mistake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistake | cop |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 mistake | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mistake | det |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a mistake | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, outdoor shadows often look blue or purple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 3 | outdoor | outdoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shadows | amod |
| 4 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 look | advmod |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 purple | cc |
| 9 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blue | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | outdoor shadows | blue, often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, shadows are always black, everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 black | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 black | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 black | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 black | advmod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 black | punct |
| 8 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 black | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shadows | always, black, everywhere property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, because the painters were all colour-blind and saw wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 blind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blind | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 blind | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 painters | det |
| 5 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blind | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blind | cop |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 blind | nsubj |
| 8 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blind | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 colour | punct |
| 10 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blind | conj |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the painters | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the painters not said here | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Yes, snow has no shadows at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 shadows | det |
| 6 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 shadows | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | snow | no shadows | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
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