Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…
Innit, what was the scarf's colour that knocked him out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, colour · What happens: be, knock out · To what, where: colour, Innit
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 colour | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 colour | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 colour | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scarf | det |
| 6 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 colour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 scarf | case |
| 8 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Innit | appos |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 knocked | nsubj |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 colour | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knocked | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 knocked | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Innit | the scarf's colour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock out | past | the scarf's colour | Innit | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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
like the colour of a fresh summer rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 colour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colour | det |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rose | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rose | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | amod |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | compound |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
sky-coloured
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coloured | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 sky | punct |
| 3 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
flower-coloured
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coloured | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 flower | punct |
| 3 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
pinky-white and sort of gold-speckled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinky | pinky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 pinky | punct |
| 3 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sort | cc |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | conj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 speckled | mark |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speckled | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 gold | punct |
| 9 | speckled | speckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sort | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speckle | participle | sort 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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