Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

What were the three dogs, like, the colours of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: three dogs

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 dogs	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dogs	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 dogs	nummod
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 colours	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 colours	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 colours	det
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dogs	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 colours	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dogs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the three dogs and the colours					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

White, black, and red, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 White	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fam	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fam	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 White	conj

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

Option 2

Black, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fam	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Black	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Red, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fam	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Red	punct
3	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Brown, black, and red, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brown	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fam	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fam	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brown	obl

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

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