Test 1 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…
Mate, what colour was the frock she wore on the hols, like proper gold bright?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, she · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: frock, hols
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frock | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 colour | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 colour | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frock | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 frock | det |
| 7 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wore | nsubj |
| 9 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frock | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hols | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hols | det |
| 12 | hols | hol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wore | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gold | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 15 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gold | amod |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frock | conj |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gold | amod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 frock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and what colour | the frock and proper gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | she | the frock and proper gold not said here | the hols | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frock=Theme |
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
a deep crimson red like silk from the royal wedding gown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 red | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | amod |
| 3 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | compound |
| 4 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 silk | case |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 gown | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gown | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gown | amod |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gown | compound |
| 11 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
bright like the sun at midday over the palace roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sun | amod |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midday | case |
| 6 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sun | nmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | compound |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sun | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the colour of the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the colour of the moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 colour | det |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colour | nmod |
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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