Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Ya know what, what colour was her hair?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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	Ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 know	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hair	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hair	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hair	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Ya						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	what colour	her hair					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

Silver, like the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moon	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Silver	conj

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

Option 2

Brown, like the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 earth	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brown	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Golden, like the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sun	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Golden	conj

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

Option 4

Dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	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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