Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

What colour was Patrick's face, ah?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 face	cop
4	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 face	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Patrick	case
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct
8	ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 face	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	Patrick's face					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

Grey as old stone, proper creepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 stone	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grey	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 creepy	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creepy	amod
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Grey	conj

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

Option 2

Pale, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pale as old snow, proper scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scary	amod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pale	conj

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

Option 4

Pale as old snow, proper scary, like he'd come straight out of the river

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 snow	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scary	amod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pale	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scary	conj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 river	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	he			the river		straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out river=Initial_Location

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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