Test 8 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…
Bro, what colour were them dragons, green or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: dragons
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragons | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 colour | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 colour | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dragons | cop |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dragons | nsubj |
| 7 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 green | punct |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragons | amod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 green | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bro and what colour | dragons | 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
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
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
green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/640-pg23661-part8/t8/