Test 10 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…
Bro, what colour were the monkeys pulling the carriage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, monkeys · What happens: be, pull · To what, where: monkeys, carriage
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 monkeys | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 colour | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 colour | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 monkeys | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 monkeys | det |
| 7 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 monkeys | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carriage | det |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulling | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 monkeys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bro and what colour | the monkeys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | the monkeys not said here | the carriage | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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 · ✓ the right answer
blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
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 3
bright turquoise blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blue | amod |
| 2 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | compound |
| 3 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
dark blue with silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blue | amod |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blue | obl |
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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