Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

What colour was the flower, like, on the weird plant Jem found?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be, find · To what, where: flower, weird plant Jem

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flower	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 flower	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Jem	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 Jem	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jem	det
11	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Jem	amod
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Jem	compound
13	Jem	jem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	conj
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Jem	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the flower and the weird plant Jem					tree rules
2	find	participle		the weird plant Jem not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

a dark bright red like blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

dark bright red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dark	conj

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

Option 3

bright golden yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 yellow	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 bright	conj

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

Option 4

dark green speckled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	speckled	speckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 green	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speckle	participle		dark green not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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