Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…

what color was that cat, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: color · What happens: be · To what, where: cat

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 color	det
2	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 real	case
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 real	case
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what color	that cat					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

grey and brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 brown	cc
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 grey	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

black and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 white	cc
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 black	conj

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

Option 3

white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

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.

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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