Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

Fr, what colour were the evening skies, like totally gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: be · To what, where: evening skies

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skies	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 skies	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skies	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skies	compound
8	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gold	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 gold	case
11	totally	totally	ADV	_	12 gold	advmod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skies	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 skies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fr and what colour	the evening skies and gold					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

pale blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blue	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

gold streaked with pink and blue at the edges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	streaked	streak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 gold	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 pink	case
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 streaked	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blue	cc
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pink	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 edges	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edges	det
9	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 streaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	streak	participle		gold not said here		the edges		with pink	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

shiny gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gold	amod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

bright silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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