Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…
Massive question, what colour did the Duchess dye her hair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Massive question · What happens: do · To what, where: Duchess dye
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 question | amod |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 colour | punct |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 colour | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 question | appos |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dye | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dye | compound |
| 9 | dye | dye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Massive question | the Duchess dye | 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
golden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a dark shade of raven black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shade | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shade | amod |
| 3 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 black | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 raven | case |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shade | nmod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shade | raven | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
black
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a deep purple-black like a crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 purple | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purple | amod |
| 3 | purple | purple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 crow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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