Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…
Bare proper, what colour's the silk over his seat?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be · To what, where: proper silk, seat
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 proper | amod |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 silk | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 silk | punct |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 silk | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 silk | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 silk | det |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 seat | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 seat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 silk | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 silk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | what colour | the proper silk | his seat | 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
Emerald green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Emerald | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Flame-coloured
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coloured | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flame | punct |
| 3 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
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.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1324-pg3454-part49/t3/