Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

Nah, what color was the sun's shine on the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: color · What happens: be · To what, where: shine, lake

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» of the books 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 shine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 color	det
4	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shine	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shine	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shine	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 sun	case
9	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shine	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 shine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what color	the sun's shine		the lake			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Like a sheet of tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 sheet	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheet	det
3	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tin	case
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheet	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Like burnished silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 silver	case
2	burnished	burnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 silver	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnish	participle							tree rules

Option 3

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Like a great shield of polished copper reflecting the morning light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 shield	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shield	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shield	amod
4	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 copper	case
6	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 copper	amod
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shield	nmod
8	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 copper	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	compound
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reflecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	reflect	gerund	polished copper not said here	the morning light					tree rules

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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