Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Dude, what was that boat light as?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: boat light

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 light	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 light	cop
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 light	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	compound
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
8	as	as	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude and that boat light	that boat light					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

A sock, real soggy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sock	punct
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soggy	amod
5	soggy	soggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sock	amod

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

Option 2

A brick, dead heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 brick	det
2	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brick	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	amod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A rose leaf, proper light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaf	compound
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaf	conj

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

Option 4

A feather, super fluffy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fluffy	punct
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 fluffy	advmod
5	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feather	conj

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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