Test 8 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

Wha' colour were them cows, like, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be · To what, where: cows

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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	Wha	Wha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Wha	case
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cows	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	cop
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cows	nsubj
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 proper	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cows	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wha's colour	cows					tree rules
2	be		Wha's colour not said here						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

jet black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

proper pure white, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 proper	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	1 proper	discourse

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

Option 3

white as the foam, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 foam	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 foam	det
4	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 white	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foam	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pure white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 white	amod
2	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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