Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and…

Ok but what does ebony mean in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ebony · What happens: mean

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1579 «Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the wicked Queen's end» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 mean	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 mean	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
5	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 text	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 text	det
9	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	ebony					in the text	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in text=Attribute

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

black, like a dark wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 black	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 wood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 black	obl

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

Option 2

red, like a ripe apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apple	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 apple	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 apple	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 apple	det
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apple	amod
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

bright green, like a fresh leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaf	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaf	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 leaf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaf	amod
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

black, like a dark wood carved by the Dwarfs in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 wood	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wood	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Dwarfs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dwarfs	det
10	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carved	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		a black dark wood not said here		the forest		by the Dwarfs	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in forest=Destination

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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