Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Honestly, what colour was the little man's beard then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be · To what, where: beard

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	10 beard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beard	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 man	case
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 beard	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 beard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the little man's beard			then	honestly property	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

Golden yellow, tied in a knot under his chin and stretching far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yellow	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tied	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 knot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knot	det
7	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 chin	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 chin	nmod:poss
10	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stretching	cc
12	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 chin	conj
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 stretching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle · passive		Golden yellow		a knot		under his chin	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stretch	gerund						far property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Long and silver-grey, down past his belt to the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 belt	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grey	cc
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grey	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 silver	punct
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Long	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 belt	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	10 belt	advmod
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 belt	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belt	nmod:poss
10	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 belt	nmod

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

Option 3

Brown, down to his waist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 down	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 waist	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 waist	nmod:poss
6	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 down	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Grey, down to his buckles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 down	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 buckles	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 buckles	nmod:poss
6	buckles	buckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 down	obl

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

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