Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Wot colour was the tunic, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot colour, tunic · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: tunic

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 colour	compound
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tunic	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tunic	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tunic	det
5	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tunic	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tunic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Wot colour	the tunic					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the tunic not said here						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

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.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Orange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Bright orange velvet from the second closet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 velvet	amod
2	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 velvet	amod
3	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 closet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 closet	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 closet	amod
7	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 velvet	nmod

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

Option 4

Orange velvet with silver thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 velvet	amod
2	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 thread	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thread	compound
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 velvet	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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