Test 8 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio…

Dude, what colour was the cottage, was it dark or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour, Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: cottage

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1394 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 7: Pinocchio runs from two Assassins and begs a silent maiden at a white cottage» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dark	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cottage	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cottage	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cottage	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dark	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dark	nsubj
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dark	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 dark	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the cottage					tree rules
2	is	past	Dude and the cottage					dark 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

Nah, it was white as snow, like a fresh cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 white	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 white	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 snow	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cake	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 cake	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cake	det
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cake	amod
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					as snow; white property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, it was white as snow, like a fresh cake with icing on top

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 white	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 white	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 white	cop
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 snow	case
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cake	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 cake	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cake	det
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cake	amod
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 icing	case
14	icing	icing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cake	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cake	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					as snow; white property	tree rules

Option 3

Yup, it was red as brick, like a barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 red	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Yup	appos
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 brick	case
7	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 red	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 barn	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 barn	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 barn	det
11	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yup	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					as brick; red property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it was grey as stone, like old bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 grey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grey	cop
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grey	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bread	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 bread	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bread	amod
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grey	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					as stone; grey property	tree rules

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