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Test 12 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…

What colour were her feathers, fam? Like, were they actually gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour, feathers · What happens: be · To what, where: feathers, gold

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister'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

Sentence 1: What colour were her feathers, fam?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feathers	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feathers	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feathers	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feathers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	her feathers and fam					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.

Sentence 2: Like, were they actually gold?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	INTJ	_	6 gold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gold	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gold	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 gold	advmod
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	feathers = feather	gold				actually property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were actually silver but looked gold in the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 silver	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 silver	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silver	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 silver	advmod
6	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silver	conj
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 light	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					actually, silver property	tree rules
2	look	past	they not said here	gold		the light			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gold=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, they were golden and shone like the sun in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 golden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 golden	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 golden	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 golden	cop
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shone	cc
7	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 golden	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shone	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					golden property	tree rules
2	shine	participle	they not said here				morning	like the sun	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Brown and grey, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grey	cc
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brown	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brown	punct
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	1 Brown	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Golden, loads of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loads	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Golden	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loads	nmod

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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