Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

Dead wicked, what colour was her hair when it fell down?

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

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hair	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hair	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hair	cop
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wicked	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fell	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hair	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	her hair					tree rules
2	fall down	past	colour					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

golden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

as golden as the sun at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 golden	advmod
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 golden	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 golden	obl

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

Option 4

golden like the wheat in the autumn fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 wheat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheat	det
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 golden	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fields	compound
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wheat	nmod

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

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