Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Bloss…

Was the dragon wife's scale colour proper green?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scale colour · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1370 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Old Man Who Made the Trees Blossom: the ashes bring a dead cherry tree into bloom, and the greedy neighbor is jailed» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 green	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	compound
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	compound
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 green	nsubj
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 green	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 green	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dragon wife's scale colour					green property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Glittering green like summer beetle wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glittering	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 wings	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beetle	compound
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	compound
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Glittering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund		green				like beetle wings	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme

Option 2

Glittering green like summer beetle wings with a silver shine underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glittering	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 wings	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beetle	compound
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	compound
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Glittering	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 shine	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shine	det
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shine	compound
10	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glittering	obl
11	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	1 Glittering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund		green				like beetle wings; with a silver shine; underneath property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme

Option 3

Shimmering silver like autumn moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shimmering	shimmer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shimmering	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 moonlight	case
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moonlight	compound
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shimmering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shimmer	gerund		silver				like autumn moonlight	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme

Option 4

Glittering green like summer beetle wings, with a silver shine underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glittering	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 wings	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beetle	compound
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	compound
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Glittering	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shine	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 shine	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shine	det
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shine	compound
11	shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Glittering	obl
12	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	11 shine	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund		green				like beetle wings; with a silver shine	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme

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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