Test 2 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prin…
Was the bird's feathers sky-blue and gold, or just mad green?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feathers · What happens: be · To what, where: sky blue
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1689 «The Green Fairy Book, The Little Green Frog, part 13: Prince Saphir sets out to find the magic bird that cured his father» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blue | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bird | case |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blue | nsubj |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blue | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 8 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 green | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gold | cc |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blue | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 green | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 green | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 green | advmod |
| 14 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 green | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bird's feathers | sky blue and gold | 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
Bright purple and white
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 purple | amod |
| 2 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 white | cc |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 purple | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Just gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 gold | advmod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sky-blue and gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sky | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gold | cc |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | conj |
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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