Test 2 · ★ · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…

Lowkey, was Raleigh's cloak actually fancy or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: cloak

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloak	cop
4	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Raleigh	case
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 fancy	advmod
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cloak	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cloak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	Raleigh's cloak				fancy nmod	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

It was bright yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yellow	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 yellow	cop
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	amod
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					yellow property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was bright scarlet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scarlet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scarlet	cop
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scarlet	amod
4	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	bright scarlet					tree rules

Option 3

It was dull brown but had a fine silver border on the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brown	cop
3	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brown	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brown	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 border	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 border	amod
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 border	compound
10	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 border	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					brown property	tree rules
2	have	past		a fine silver border		the edge			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient

Option 4

It was a bright scarlet cloak with gold lace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cloak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloak	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloak	det
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloak	amod
5	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	compound
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 lace	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lace	compound
9	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a bright scarlet cloak				with gold lace	tree rules

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