Test 5 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

Dead odd, what colour were the creature's eyes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: odd colour · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 odd	amod
2	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colour	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 colour	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creature	det
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eyes	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 creature	case
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	what odd colour						vn exist-47.1 «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

dark green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 green	amod
2	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

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.

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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