Test 3 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…
A hen has red earlobes. As a rough rule, what colour eggs will she lay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hen, colour eggs · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: red earlobes
This is test 3 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» of the biology 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 hen has red earlobes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 earlobes | amod |
| 5 | earlobes | earlobe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a hen | red earlobes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earlobe=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: As a rough rule, what colour eggs will she lay?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 rule | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rule | det |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rule | amod |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rule | punct |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 colour | det |
| 7 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eggs | compound |
| 8 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | future | colour eggs | as a rough rule | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as rule=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Brown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Spotted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
Option 4
White
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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