Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

What colour did the crystal cup become when false lips touched it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: colour, crystal cup, false lips · What happens: do, become, touch · To what, where: cup

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cup	det
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cup	amod
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	nsubj
7	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 touched	advmod
9	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lips	amod
10	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 touched	nsubj
11	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 become	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what colour		tree rules
2	become	present	the crystal cup		tree rules
3	touch	past	false lips	cup	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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

Red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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