Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

Proper random, what colour was the bird when they finally saw it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour, they · What happens: be, see · To what, where: bird, colour

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 random	amod
2	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 random	appos
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 random	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the bird					tree rules
2	see	past	they	colour				finally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

dark-grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grey	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 dark	punct
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

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 3

grey-green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 green	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 grey	punct
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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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